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...president. In 1919, Pierre S. du Pont of Wilmington retired from the gunpowder business, prepared to give Delaware a peerless school system. For him Builder Betelle put up 125 schools. He also planned the normal school at New Britain, Conn., the new State Teachers' College at Trenton, N. J., nine others elsewhere. Among his 56 high schools are those of Greenwich (Conn.). Newark, Great Neck (L. I.), New Rochelle (N. Y.), the George Fisher Baker Memorial High School at Tuxedo Park, N. Y. He has also built eleven junior high schools, six vocational schools, one reformatory. Builder Betelle does...
...Seton Committee; and gentlemen in tailcoats and black ties, including Biographer Father Code. A dozen similar audiences were to follow. To lend ecclesiastical prestige came Mother-General Marie LeBrun of the Sisters of Charity of Paris, Cardinals Donatus Sbarretti and Bonaventure Cerretti, Bishop John Joseph McMahon of Trenton, N. J. and Rev. Giuseppe Scognamillo of Rome, postulator (advocate) of Mother Seton. In the Papal throne-room they genuflected, presented to His Holiness a petition in 29 volumes, by 150,000 of the U. S. faithful. Cordially, briefly, His Holiness addressed the pilgrims in Italian, thanked them for coming...
William Achenback Wetzel, Trenton...
...there voted to delete their recommendation. Mother Church, alarmed by many a protest since the report was issued, had made them quickly drop the hot potato. Moderator elected that afternoon was Dr. Lewis Seymour Mudge of Philadelphia. Princeton graduate (1889), pastor for 26 years in churches in Beverly and Trenton, N. J., Lancaster and Harrisburg. Pa., since 1921 he has been Stated Clerk of the Assembly-the Church's second most important position. He succeeds Dr. Hugh Thompson Kerr, famed radio preacher. Because many felt that the incumbent should not be both Stated Clerk and Moderator, a surprise candidate...
...scout for animals they wish to capture. Alexander Siemel, jaguar-spearer, was limping gingerly. An alligator chewed his leg in March. Two members of the party were back at their homes-John Newel, Augusta, Mich, radio and talkie man, weakened by sunstroke; and William E. Green, amateur taxidermist of Trenton. N. J., poisoned by bites of insects and the jararaca snake...