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...Hubert Scott-Paine became a director of Imperial Airways, to whose board he still belongs. In 1921 he helped build up British Supermarine Motor Co. He sank his whole fortune financing and building the plane that won the Schneider Cup from Italy in 1922, defended it suc- cessfully the next year. He happened into the motorboat building industry when he and his wife, Brenda Scott-Paine, almost as good a boat-driver as her husband, were planning a trip to Africa on their power cruiser. He went to a boat-works to buy new parts for their power cruiser, became...
...Babylon and Nineveh and ancient Rome," cried he, "wallowed in the wealth of material prosperity, stood naked and unashamed in their perdition?and suc- cumbed. But the human lamp posts of Xero. the men, women and children thrown to the lions at the Colosseum for a Roman holiday, gave us the artesian springs of Christianity that rule the world, while the splendors of Rome are almost forgotten memories...
...Yale, Harvard Law School, practiced law for three years in Boston. He now spends much of his time on his northern New England farm. In 1929 he traveled on foot and muleback Cortes' route in Mexico, to get first-hand impressions for Conquistador, a first-magnitude effort and suc cess. Other poems: The Happy Marriage, The Pot of Earth, Streets in the Moon, The Hamlet of A. MacLeish, New Found Land...
Shrewd, Mr. Gandhi has never tried to move Christians by this Christlike form of ultimatum; but upon the Hindus and Moslems of India he has tried it more than once, and last week it again suc- ceeded. Abruptly the Congress Working Committee approved the whole Gandhi program, threw it to the delegates...
...Church." Christ is its authority; preaching Christ, its purpose; governing the Church, its trust: the ministry is "commissioned through an act of ordination, by prayer and the laying on of hands." Nothing could be said about the authority in this commissioning, whether it is primarily by virtue of apostolic suc- cession or by virtue of election by the pastor's contemporaries. The committee on the ministry could only suggest that each sect recognize the authority and appropriateness of the ministers of all other sects...