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...amity, Calvin Coolidge congratulated Neguest Tafari Makonnen on his coronation as King of Ethiopia, talked to King Alfonso of Spain over a new transatlantic wireless telephone, pressed a button opening the 11th Maui county fair in Hawaii, made a speech on "material and spiritual welfare" before the 49th General Triennial Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church,? in Washington...
...triennial general convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church resolved to delete, from the Protestant Episcopal prayer manual, that section known as "the Thirty-nine articles," which among other things, defines some of the differences between Protestant and Roman Catholic creeds and practices. This resolution, to be effected, must be ratified at the next general convention, to be held at Washington, in October. Last week 105 more or less consequential lay members of the Protestant Episcopal Church from 45 of the 72 U. S. dioceses, signed a memorial to the House of Bishops petitioning that the Thirty-nine articles be retained...
...triennial convention of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers in Cleveland, President William B. Prenter presented a financial proposal from Mitten Management, Inc. This corporation, headed by Thomas Eugene Mitten and his son Dr. A. A. Mitten, has been remarkably successful in operating street cars, motor busses, taxicabs and a bank in Philadelphia, also a street car line in Buffalo. Their plan has been to permit employes to share in the management, investments and profits of their enterprises...
...Paris took place a triennial meeting of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance. Its opening was enlivened by a purely American brawl. The National League of Women Voters represents the U. S. in the Alliance. The National Woman's Party was at hand asking admission to membership in the Alliance as a second U. S. organization. For a long time there has been a breach between these American societies over a matter of principle. The League contends for special legislation protecting women in industry. The Party opposes "protection" and demands absolute equality for women and men in industry...
...Haven, Conn., June 10--Yale bowl is receiving its triennial bath of paint. Every third year the woodwork in the great enclosure is given two coats of paint, a job which takes twenty men three months to complete...