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...Chicago's huge Palmer House one day last fortnight, 50 businessmen attending the annual convention of their trade association, opened the meeting by chanting in unison: WHERE'S THIS YEAR'S PECK OF PICKLED PEPPERS PETER PIPER PICKED? There was not a man present that could not reel off Peter Piper without a bobble, and older hands did not boggle Theophilus the thistle-sifter. But full as they were of percussive alliteration they were no mere funsters. They were members of the 46-year-old National Pickle Packers Association representing 85% of an industry which has done...
...present moment. The Scandinavian public is dead set against them. Even when the British a few weeks ago suggested they might guarantee the Scandinavian countries' independence, they showed no enthusiasm. They want neutrality, not pacts. Obviously, all four would have liked to reply to Germany in unison: "Thank you, Herr Hitler, but we don't want any pacts...
...Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and the Methodist Protestant Church are and shall be one united church." When Bishop John Monroe Moore of Dallas, Tex. voiced those words, in Kansas City's Municipal Auditorium one night last week, 900 delegates to the Methodist Uniting Conference answered in roaring unison: "We do so declare." Bishops and delegates then cried aloud: "To the Methodist Church thus established we do solemnly declare our allegiance, and upon all its life and service we do reverently invoke the blessing of Almighty God. Amen...
Heartened by a favorable pre-game prognostication, the CRIMSON nine yesterday wound up a lengthy training session with plenty of spirits. Confidence was rampant in the palatial Plympton Street fieldhouse. "I know we can!" shrieked the team in unison...
...Conference got under way when its co-chairmen-suave Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes (North), slight Bishop John Monroe Moore (South), Dr. James H. Straughn (Methodist Protestant)-said simultaneously: "This we do reverently in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit." The unison would have been perfect except that Bishop Moore said "Holy Ghost...