Word: southern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congregational-Christian, had voted to join the Council. Ten others approved in principle: the Northern Baptists, Reformed and Evangelical-Reformed Churches, two smaller Presbyterian bodies, two Lutheran groups, the Disciples of Christ, the Episcopal and Methodist Episcopal Churches. Only body which had thumbed down the World Council, the Southern Baptist Convention, was expected to reconsider at its next meeting...
Twelve years ago, bewhiskered old Leonor F. Loree wanted to merge his Kansas City Southern Ry. with the Missouri-Kansas-Texas and the St. Louis Southwestern railroads. ICC said No. A few years later the Van Sweringens wanted to merge it with their sprawling Missouri Pacific. Hard times quashed that idea. In 1931 Chicago Great Western got control of K.C.S. But litigation, instituted by Railroader Loree, kept the pair apart. Last week, Kansas City Southern once more was on the verge of matrimony-this time proposed by its Board Chairman Harvey Crowley Couch...
...sprained fingers on his throwing hand. He replied that he would push in the teeth of the writer who said O'Dea would play today. O'Dea may have to catch this afternoon, but Gabby Hartnett, active or inactive, has roused the cheers of the baseball world for the "Southern" side of the 1938 World Series...
...putter) as recommended by the main street sporting-goods store. A few months later they not only had all the students golf-conscious but Daughter Lawson-a caddy carrying her four clubs in his hand like sticks of kindling wood- survived two qualifying rounds of the women's Southern golf championship...
Estelle Lawson Page, after breaking all the course records in the Carolinas (she has made five holes-in-one) and winning most of the major Southern tournaments, made national headlines last year when she won the medal honors in the U. S. women's championship for the second year in a row, and then went on to upset golf's famed medal jinx by winning the tournament. Patty Berg made national headlines two years earlier when, as a 17-year-old unknown, she reached the final of the U. S. women's championship in her first...