Word: timing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before a railroad may build a new line, it must make application to its stern guardian, the Interstate Commerce Commission. The Commission may or may not look favorably on the petition of its ward. Last week for the first time the I.C.C., without waiting to be asked by a railroad, commanded the Union Pacific to build 185 miles of new line. This assumption that the Commission has positive as well as negative, executive as well as judicial power over the railroads of the land will probably be bitterly contested by the railroads...
...extra day from February. By 1582 the inexact Calendar had slipped away ten days from its relation to the seasons. The new Gregorian Calendar was created that year, lopping off the ten extra days. In 1752 Great Britain and its colonies (including America) adopted it, but by that time the accumulated error was eleven days. Turkey adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1917, Russia in 1918, Rumania and Serbia in 1919, Greece...
...name of Preacher Fosdick's church ceased to be a misnomer. At a meeting of the congregation in the completed portion of the new $4,000,000 edifice which most-famed-member-of-the-congregation John Davison Rockefeller Jr. is building at Riverside Drive and 122nd Street (TIME, Dec. 31). it was announced that the Riverside Church was now its legal title. Though the alteration of title was agreed upon a year ago, no legal action could be taken until a New York State law preventing a religious corporation from changing its name was amended at the last session...
...churchmen who listened to the buzz last September when Rev. William St. John Blackshear, Brooklyn Episcopalian, discouraged the attendance of Negroes in his church, noted that Parson Blackshear did not actually disbar any Negro from his congregation (TIME, Sept. 30). Last week a more pointed incident of the same sort gave churchmen something more to buzz about. Pastor Adelbert J. Helm of Detroit's Bethel Evangelical Church announced his resignation. Reason: his church council's refusal of membership to a Negro man, a Negro woman...
Bethel Church's director of education. Orville Brummer, resigned with Pastor Helm. Said he: "Since it is finally impossible to teach children much more at any given time than their seniors will practice, I despair of any large scale success in teaching children principles of brotherhood in an exclusive church...