Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been intermittently under construction, the U. S. mother house of the Society of St. John the Evangelist (Cowley Fathers), oldest (1865) order of priests in the Anglican communion. Present last week to lay the cornerstone of a chapel dedicated to St. Mary, Mother of God, were Episcopal Suffragan Bishop Samuel Gavitt Babcock of Massachusetts, pious Architect Ralph Adams Cram, Glassman Charles Jay Connick, able Organist Everett Titcomb, and Rev. Spence Burton, U. S. superior of the black-cassocked Cowley Fathers...
Married. Hélène Kenyon Fortescue, 22, sister of Mrs. Thalia Fortescue Massie Bell (TIME, Jan. 18, 1932 et seq.) and Julian Louis Reynolds, 26, son of Vice President Richard Samuel Reynolds of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels); in Washington...
Sued. Cinemagnate Samuel Goldwyn; by Cinemagnate Adolph Zukor, for Paramount Pictures Corp.; for $5,000,000 damages arising from Goldwyn's "theft" of Paramount's topflight Cinemactor Gary Cooper; in Los Angeles...
Died. S. (for Samuel) Parkes Cadman, 71, radiopreacher, pastor of Brooklyn's Central Congregational Church, onetime (1924-28) president of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, onetime (1934-36) honorary Congregational moderator; of a ruptured appendix; in Plattsburg...
Though the U. S. has been a fertile field of observation, Author Peattie lists few U. S. naturalists. John Bartram, Colonial farmer turned collector, roamed the whole Atlantic seaboard for his European customers. Alexander Wilson and Jean-Jacques Audubon were first-rate ornithologists. Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, "most widely celebrated unknown man in science," was a brilliant Jack-of-all-sciences. Germany's Goethe was an amateur naturalist whose scientific theories were often ridiculous but almost always fruitful. Author Peattie's biggest hero is an Englishman. Charles Darwin, whose five seasick years aboard H. M. S. Beagle gave...