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...expropriated 15 acres of Baptist land; 2) in Rumania where the Government had detained one missionary 48 hours in a "vile dungeon." To Secretary of State Hull in Washington went Baptist protests against both "injustices." The Southern Baptist Convention passed a broad social service report but with stubborn conservatism tabled a recommendation to "investigate moral and social conditions as they affect Southern Baptist life." Said a "messenger" (delegate) : "We don't want any of that Communistic business in this convention." Fellowship Meetings. An odd liaison between the Northern and Southern conventions appeared in St. Louis in the loud-voiced...
...creditors wrangled among themselves and with outsiders. Most likely plan was offered in 1934 by Bowater's acting for a Beaverbrook. Bondholders were offered new bonds for principal and cash for the interest. Banker McGregor's committee thought this fair enough. The Plan fell through, however, when stubborn preferred stockholders blocked approval. Still undaunted, Banker McGregor dug in again and waited. By this time, because of his insistent demands for 100? on the dollar, the dogged banker had earned the title "Par" McGregor. Last week it was apparent that the stockholders' mulishness had saved, ironically enough, every...
...most girls, small-town or otherwise, young Dr. Dakin's boorish reaction to the news might well remove all glamour from the escapade and make a return to Carvel seem an irresistible alternative. Not so for Kay Brannan. With a stubborn sweetness that does credit to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's casting intuition, Kay Brannan goes about reforming her oafish Boston scion until, instead of divorcing her to marry the lecherous debutante (Binnie Barnes) who had been his fiancée, he is ready to sober up and settle down to work as a brain surgeon. Best shot...
...early days of the New Deal Jesse Holman Jones had to storm the stubborn walls of U. S. banking to get anyone to take money from his RFC. Bankers who really needed Government money were scared to take it because of the onus attached to RFC loans. Those in a sounder position could not find use even for the money they already had. Upshot was that Mr. Jones finally persuaded big super-solvent institutions to sell him notes or preferred stock as a patriotic gesture, thereby setting an example for smaller banks to follow. One of the first...
...Harvard's pet comic-strip heroines is that ravishing blonde, Burma, of "Terry and the Pirates." Not long ago, if you recall, she developed a violent crush on Pat, the swarthy hero of the strip--who showed a stubborn disinterest in all her advances...