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...Protestant Episcopal Church's presiding bishop, the Rt. Rev. Henry St. George Tucker, (longtime missionary in Japan), looked toward Japan, urged a more Christian attitude toward the Japanese. He recalled that President Roosevelt had refused the gift of a letter opener carved from a bone of a dead Japanese, that the skulls of Japanese soldiers have been sent to America. "However such actions . . . may have been provoked . . ." he wrote, "they cannot but be condemned...
...manner of praise should be given to the Committee that planned and carried out the affair. The Parker House Roof had everything and everybody was there. What a list of celebrities Governor Salfonstall, Admiral Theohold, Senator Walsh, Dinah Shore and Tommy Tucker to name a few. All these were invited and would have come if they had the time. But there were many there. Particularly in the cocktail lounge. There, a happy crowd gathered amidst pleasant conviviality, piled four or five deep. At one time I had the horrible experience of seeing my girl with four legs and three hands...
Fresh from the factory, 500-wagon-red, self-propelled combines drove north with the wheat harvest last week. The roving harvest brigade was big news on the farm front. Backer of the idea was Joseph M. Tucker, shrewd U.S. vice president of Canada's largest farm-machinery manufacturers, Massey-Harris Co., Ltd. Tucker sold the War Food Administration and the Canadian Government on the idea of allocating to Massey-Harris enough engines and steel to build 500 of the self-propelled combines (see cut). The one condition: that Massey-Harris would sell the machines to operators who would agree...
With the War Food Administration calling on U.S. farmers to plant 13.8 million additional acres of wheat this season, and the U.S. farmers testily questioning the sense of planting more acreage unless they could get machinery to harvest it, Tucker's idea won quick approval...
...Among them were the Archbishop of York, first English prelate to officiate at a U.S. consecration in 73 years; Dr. Andrew Y. Y. Tsu, Bishop of Kunming, first Chinese Bishop in U.S. Episcopal history to assist at a consecration; the Episcopal Church's Presiding Bishop Henry St. George Tucker. The two-and-a-half-hour ceremony was witnessed by some 3,000 people, including British Ambassador Lord Halifax and his Lady, Supreme Court Justices Owen J. Roberts, Stanley F. Reed, Robert H. Jackson, Felix Frankfurter...