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...observer referred to charges of Communism in Florida schools which have been brought to the legislature's attention. Such a charge was made recently by Major General Sumpter L. Lowry, commanding general of the 51st National Guard...
...Safety Board, the President appointed two licensed transport pilots, dashing, mustached Texan Tom Oates Hardin, vice-president of the Airline Pilots' Association, veteran of 10,000 flying hours with American Airlines; and Alabama-born Lieut.-Colonel Sumpter Smith, War flier, aeronautical engineer, since 1936 director of the Division of Airways and Airports of the WPA. The third Safety Board member was not named. Among these appointments, peeled political eyes could discover no one recommended for appointment by dictator-fearing McCarran. But if Franklin Roosevelt gave the back of his hand to Rebel Pat McCarran, it was at the same...
Ethiopia's only woman general, Waizeru Asegedetch, granddaughter and heir of the late Ras Tassama, climbed on her sumpter mule last week to lead her warriors toward Ogaden, a key point in the expected Ital ian advance from the south. Correspond ents noted that General Waizeru's men, though ununiformed, were better equipped with modern rifles and machine guns than most Ethiopian levies. Her father, bearded smiling General Dedjazmatch Haptemikael, is in the field at the head of a body of troops which has already been named "The Doomed Battalion" by newshawks. All are sworn to die for their country...
...London, and used to work with the grubby, grimy poor. In 1907, Edward VII offered him the Bishopric of Montreal. He refused. The Archbishopric of York was in his hopes. Next year he gained it. . . . Able prelates last week mooted as successors to him at York are: Frederic Sumpter Guy Warman, Bishop of Chelmsford; Herbert Hensley Henson, Bishop of Burham; Frank Theodore Woods, Bishop of Winchester; and Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram, Bishop of London. Potent have been the Archbishops of Canterbury in English history. Augustine (597-605) established Christianity in England. Bertha, queen of the fourth Saxon king of Kent...
...list of those who have joined the organization includes such names as Balys Sumpter, of the "Simon Called Peter" company, Harold Webster, recently with Jane Cowl and Ethel Barrymore, Helen Hayes, who is now playing in "Cleopatra" with the Theatre Guild, Elizabeth Patterson, star of "Candida" and one of the best known of America's character actresses, and Ann Carpenter, prominent member of the "Beggar on Horseback" cast...