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...Boston's Church of All Nations, has been criticized as "sensational" and "vaudevillian." He is "frisky as a calf, playful as a puppy, and if need be, billicose as a bull in a beauty shop . . . a combination of Walt Whitman, 'Buffalo Bill' and Theodore Roosevelt." West Virginia-born, he studied at Allegheny College, Brown, and Boston University. He claims he told Author Sinclair Lewis to "write a book about a preacher." Author Lewis settled in Kansas City where "Bill" Stidger was preaching, got him and other local ministers to help him with Elmer Gantry. But Dr. Stidger...
...Committee were two bills for human relief: 1) a $250,000,000 appropriation sponsored by the committee's chairman, Senator Robert Marion La Follette Jr. of Wisconsin who likes to play a sort of political Robin Hood; 2) a $375.000.000 appropriation backed by Senator Edward Prentiss Costigan of Colorado, Virginia-born Harvardman, old-time reformer, Bull Mooser, Anti-Saloon Leaguer, longtime (1917-28) Tariff Commissioner. Having no stake in the proceedings, the rest of the committee went home for the holidays, leaving Senators La Follette and Costigan to prepare what amounted to a record on reasons for relief...
Nobody was more pleased than Benjamin Lloyd Belt, oldtime, Virginia-born tobaccoman. In the business 40-odd years, he has been with Lorillard since it became independent in 1911, a result of American Tobacco Co.'s dissolution as a trust. In 1925 Lorillard got a thorough shaking up and Belt for president. When he took hold he found the company had everything except a popular cheap cigaret. Beech-Nut, Lorillard's first venture into the blended field, had failed. American Tobacco Co. had its Lucky Strike, Liggett & Myers its Chesterfield, R. J. Reynolds its Camel. Fat and quick...
...York Times has five assistant managing editors. Next week it will have six. From his London post as chief of the Times's foreign service Virginia-born Correspondent Edwin L. ("Jimmie") James sailed for home to "go to school" in Publisher Ochs's executive department. Healthy and happy is English-born Managing Editor Frederick T. Birchall, 59, but the Times is farsighted, forehanded. Correspondent James had several weeks experience of his new job last summer. He will work with the night shift...
Last week the Republican National Committee made up lost ground by hiring as its Director of Publicity James L. West, the Associated Press's No. 1 political writer in Washington. Virginia-born 35 years ago, Newsman West has covered many a National Convention in his 16 years' work with the A. P. He closely tagged Herbert Hoover from his Kansas City nomination to his entry into the White House. A hush-hush reporter with the manner of always having a big story up his sleeve, Newsman West has worked so long in the shadow...