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...aeromedical laboratory at Oklahoma City, CAA man John J. Swearingen built a pressure chamber like an airliner's cabin, with seats and a window of thin plastic. He made dummies with the weight, center of gravity and articulated joints of an average human being. He seated a dummy next to the window and pumped air into the chamber to simulate conditions in a pressurized airplane flying at 30,000 ft.* Then he focused his movie cameras and broke the window...
Died. Rev. Dr. Henry Chapman Swearingen, 63, of St. Paul, onetime moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly; of heart disease; aboard a train near Hastings, Neb. As a result of the Modernist-Fundamentalist controversy, he was appointed chairman of a special commission of 15 in 1925 "to study the causes of unrest in the denomination." Later he headed a commission investigating marriage, divorce and remarriage...
VICTOR C. SWEARINGEN...
...Swearingen brought the conference to order, spoke a bit on the "greatest opportunity for the Church in general since the Reformation," the opportunity to soothe racial and national unrest. Dr. R. P. Mackay of Toronto urged the teaching of Christianity in the schools as a preventive of lawlessness, domestic infelicity and other social unrest. Dr. George Warren Richards of Lancaster, Pa., read the rules for the merger. All except Dr. George Summey of New Orleans agreed. He dissented because he felt that the benefits of the union were not clear, as the General Council was only an executive body while...
...Swearingen, St. Paul divine, spoke of the "greatest opportunity for the Church in general since the Reformation." He referred to a certain church merger that was recommended last week. What two Churches (denominations) were involved...