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...raised in the church that he governs. His father was a Presbyterian preacher, the Very Rev. John Marshall Lang, Principal of Aberdeen University.* At University of Glasgow precocious Cosmo Gordon Lang won his M.A. degree at the age of 18 and a year later a valuable scholarship at swank Balliol College, Oxford. Always a politician, always ambitious, Student Lang was elected president of the Oxford Union over such potent undergraduates as Lord Curzon, Sir Edward Grey, Novelist Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins (The Prisoner of Zenda). At that time he had no intention of going into any church. He studied...
Grey curtains of rain trailed over the slates and chimney pots of London as the night-before-Coronation fell. Under the square miles of rooftops, in the slums and swank mansions, in suburban villas and the fine hotels, "Coronation" was the word most often on every lip as Greater London's 8,000,000 inhabitants, plus at least 1,500,000 visitors from the provinces, from the Dominions and colonies, from the U. S. and from every country in Europe, Asia, South America, even from the larger States of India and tribes of British Africa, all thought and spoke...
...place to worship in between regular services. And San Francisco's most vigorous Congregational church made what Temple's pastor called an offer of "marriage." Temple accepted. Last Sunday for the first time Methodists mingled with Congregationalists in First Church (2,500 seats), downtown near the swank St. Francis Hotel...
Strictly nonpolitical, the A. L. I. nevertheless last week was the field for one more joust in a historic political quarrel. Every newshawk assigned to Washington's swank Mayflower Hotel knew that a letter of greeting from Franklin Roosevelt would be read to the Institute's 15th annual meeting, and that Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes would address some "informal remarks." They expected that Mr. Hughes would mention the work of the Supreme Court. Overt conflict over the President's plan to rejuvenate the Supreme Court would naturally be as remote as the conflict in ideology...
...Stockbroker Young's swank Park Avenue apartment that evening, Manhattan financial writers got a further taste of how the self-styled "babes" in the Van Sweringen corporate woods do business. After munching sandwiches and drinking coffee in Mr. Young's tapestried dining room, newshawks met short, grey Frank B. Bernard of Muncie's Merchants National Bank, who will represent the Ball Foundation on Alleghany Corp.'s board. Next to be introduced was ruddy-faced, bald-pated Charles Leininger Bradley, chairman of the Erie R. R. and one of the late Oris Paxton Van Sweringen...