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...Acre Plan, has furnished information concerning it to churchmen in 40 States. Some 325 North Carolina churches, of eleven denominations, employ it. The largest, a Baptist church in Hendersonville, received $2,352 last year from 40-odd acres planted to corn, sweet potatoes, cabbages, etc. Rev. B. M. Strickland (Baptist) reported that since his people have taken up the Lord's Acre Plan he has performed more baptisms. Said he: "The work of the Lord's Acre makes good churches better churches, and good people better people. It also makes good churches out of dull ones...
...third-floor office in the gloomy old Federal Building in Minneapolis one morning last week, Special Master in Chancery Howard Strickland Abbott donned his black topcoat, his grey fedora, picked up his brief case and set out for the yards of Minneapolis & St. Louis R. R. It was Mr. Abbott's duty to put that dilapidated 1,600-mi. railroad on the auction block. By court order he was to offer the road at "the main entrance of the division superintendent's office at the Cedar Lake Shops." Arriving at the precise spot on the second floor...
Three years ago squabbles between the pro-Italian clergy and erratic Premier Lord Strickland of Sizergh Castle ended with dissolution of Malta's Parliament and direct government by the Governor (TIME, May 19, 1930 et seq.). A compromise was reached in 1932 whereby the Maltese were allowed a new general election with the understanding that whatever government was elected would forbid all teaching of Italian in primary schools, would oppose efforts to Italianize the Maltese. Nationalist, pro-Italian Sir Ugo Pasquale Mifsud promptly was swept into office with an impressive majority, began to dodge the agreement by lowering...
Beside Italian and English, Maltese have a language of their own and this the British Government has attempted to encourage as a means of fighting further Italianization. In London last week Lord Strickland, former Maltese Premier, prepared to hurry back, possibly to resume office. He discoursed briefly on the language problem...
During the campaign Lord Strickland's Constitutionalist Party charged that the Nationalist Party which proceeded to vanquish them is "linked with Italy, with the Church and with the Fascist declaration that Malta is a part of Italy unredeemed." Nationalists retorted that if Baron Strickland were really a "faithful son of Holy Church" as he claimed in his letter to be, then the British Premier ought to be working zealously for return of Malta to the temporal as well as spiritual fold of Rome...