Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Auteuil, June in the heroic blaze of Wimbledon. Last week international tennis and the small bronzed band of young men & women who play it best made the last stop on the circuit. The place was the stadium of the West Side Tennis Club in the otherwise undistinguished New York suburb of Forest Hills, the event the U. S. Singles Championships for men & women...
From the point of view of the mushroom business, Philadelphia (of which West Chester is a suburb) has three advantages-temperate climate, propinquity to a sophisticated market and to a big supply of horse manure. Just after the Revolution, when Philadelphia was the U. S. capital, local high livers discovered the mushrooms that had grown wild locally for years. Farmers thereupon tried to grow them artificially. Sometimes they got good crops, sometimes none. Then in 1904 Edward Henry Jacob, an accountant in a cream separator plant, began experimenting with mushrooms...
This seemed to be the opinion of several hundred of Niemoller parishioners in tree-lined Dahlem, a Berlin suburb. When they met for Sunday morning service they heard delivered from the pulpit an announcement that enraged them-the special prayer meeting they had planned to hold that evening for their imprisoned leader had been banned by police...
...McConnell Steele believes that Lent is a bore (TIME, March 30, 1936), Rev. "Jack" Hart this summer founded the Episcopal Anti-Mothball Society (TIME, July 12), "Rev." Mary Hubbert Ellis scuttles about looking for nude statues to cover up, and Rev. Dr. George Chalmers Richmond broods in a Philadelphia suburb over the many lawsuits he has brought against Episcopal dignitaries, including one pending for libel against Presiding Bishop James De Wolf Perry. Lutheran Rev. Reginald Beasil Naugle specializes in fighting labor unions, and last week he cried, "We're in Russia now!" after persons unknown smashed a door glass...
Tall, sandy-haired, crinkly-eyed President Mackie has held office since January 1936. Born in Frankford, Pa. 58 years ago, President Mackie went to Princeton Theological Seminary, spent a quarter-century in a church in a Philadelphia suburb called Sharon Hill, where he organized what is supposed to be the only church-owned country club in the U. S. complete with clubhouse, swimming pool and 18-hole golf course. He forged to the front in Fund affairs in 1930, when he fought a revival of the Wanamaker movement, won a court battle for a place on the board of directors...