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...course of such burgeoning success, the prickliness has worn off. Prime evidence of this is the friendly reception Adventist leaders gave Eternity's Reporter Martin when he visited their headquarters at Takoma Park outside Washington, D.C. On issue after issue he found them hewing to the line of conservative Protestantism, not insisting on peculiarly Adventist traditions as necessary for all Christians. Stirred by what he heard, Evangelist Leader Barnhouse held a conference with top Adventists at his Pennsylvania farm. Wrote he: "We are delighted to do justice to a much maligned group of sincere believers, and in our minds...
...WILLIAMS Takoma Park...
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George H. Abbott, Andover. Hugh Amory, Dover. Peter Calingaert, Detroit, Michigan. Cornelius deW. Hastie, Takoma Park, Maryland. Nathan Newbury, III, Weston. Alfred T. Peaslee, Jr., Dubuque, Iowa. John W. Sears, Pride's Crossing. Alan R. Trustman, Brookline. Joseph S. Ullian, Newton Center. Herbert Barry, 3rd, Brookline...
Died. James John Davis, 74, Secretary of Labor (1921-30), Republican Senator from Pennsylvania (1930-45); of uremia and a heart ailment; in Takoma Park, Md. Handsome, handshaking, Welsh-born "Puddler Jim" was a helper in an iron works at eleven, later made a fortune in investments before he entered politics. A longtime power in the Loyal Order of Moose (director general since 1906), he pushed its membership from 247 to more than 800,000, founded its two major charities (Moosehaven, Fla., for the aged; Mooseheart, Ill., for widows & orphans). In 1933 he was one of five acquitted...