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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Henry Wheeler de Forest, 82, longtime director and former board chairman of Southern Pacific Co., longtime associate of the late Railroader E. H. Harriman; after long illness; in Cold Spring Harbor...
...power. The city's lines ran down one side of the streets, Alabama Power's down the other. It was the first time TVA had gone into such direct competition with a private utility. Furthermore, since Alabama Power is a subsidiary of $1,160,000,000 Commonwealth & Southern Corp., it was direct competition between TVA and its major foe in the utilities v. Government...
...voted to join a new, nationwide Methodist Church (TIME, May 9). Last week, Attorney G. Seals Aiken of Atlanta, a lay leader in the fight against unification, went into court to salvage his church's name. He obtained a charter for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Inc., invited Southern Methodist individuals and congregations to join it when the present church ceases...
...Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A heartened hopers for church unity by its mastery of both tact and tactics. Ever since the Civil War this church has remained separated from the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. (South). Last week, winding up their General Assembly in Meridian. Miss., Southern Presbyterians approved the work of their committee which is negotiating a reunion with the Northern church. And in Philadelphia. for the first time in nearly 50 years, the Northern Presbyterians elected a Moderator from the South. (Although there are no Southern churches in the North, there are 100,000 Northern...
...meet was a victory for the West Coast and its orange blossom climate; Southern California amassed 47 1/2 points, almost double that of the runner-up, Michigan State. The University of California was third with 22 1/2, Pitt 20 1/2, Manhattan 15, Harvard 12, Princeton 10 1/2. N. Y. U. 10, Rhode Island 9, and Columbia...