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...last week met pastors of 10,000 Nebraska Presbyterians. When nominations for moderator were requested, no one immediately thought of a name, and to Rev. Ralph Valentine Gilbert of Fremont there came, as he said later, "an impulse." Leaping to his feet he proposed the name of Rev. John Simeon Williams. Startled, the Omaha Presbytery pondered Minister Gilbert's proposal long enough to agree that it was good. Someone moved that nominations be closed. Thus elected was the presbytery's only Negro, the second man of his race ever to become a moderator of a presbytery...
...precise British accent of his native Jamaica, B. W. I. "But I didn't expect anything like this." In Omaha, scene of lynching and riot in 1919, newshawks called a dozen Presbyterians at random, found ' that all but one, a Southerner, approved of the election of John Simeon Williams. For seven years this slight, 39-year-old man of God, who left Jamaica to labor in Cuban sugar fields, left there to earn his way as a tailor through Alabama schools and a Chicago seminary, has shepherded an Omaha flock of 57. A good tenor. Minister Williams built...
Married. William Curley, editor of William Randolph Hearst's New York Evening Journal; and one Mary Grace; at "La Cuesta Encantada" on the Hearst Ranch at San Simeon, Calif. Bridesmaids were Mrs. Stephen ("Laddie") Sanford, Doris Duke Cromwell, Marion Davies...
...Philadelphia last week several hundred clergymen were invited to the Planetarium donated by Soapman Samuel Simeon Fels to the Franklin Institute. They beheld ''The Easter Story," projected not only with lights showing how the moon and sun determine the falling of Easter Sunday (this year: March 28) but also-to the accompaniment of phonograph records and scripture readings-with flood and spotlights which were supposed to suggest crosses and angels...
...whos sought no radio news scoops but brought to his audiences the "human side of the news." For along time his voice boomed out for Hearts's newsreel. Just as Hearst took his name from Hearst Metrotone news, Mr. Hill voluntarily left the employ of the Lord of San Simeon and his pictures of Pacific battle fleets. Edwin C. Hill is now heard weekly over the radio in "Behind the Headlines...