Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Week before in Manhattan had met the Church's National Council, bothered as usual by the money troubles which proverbial Episcopal wealth never seems quite great enough to down. This time it was $127,000 that was needed, to balance a missionary budget of $2,700,000. The National Council decided that if the difference is not contributed by March 31, missionary work will just have to be cut. Gloomed Treasurer Lewis Battelle Franklin: "We should go directly to the people of this Church and tell them that the missionary work of the Church is dying on its feet...
...feature game at the Common-wealth Armory tonight, the Varsity polo team will cross mallets with the 110th Cavalry aggregation led by Captain Mangini at 9:15 o'clock. The Freshman riders will tangle with the Winchester Aces in a preliminary game...
...mythical and familiar figures is a delight to follow. President Dunster, Max Keezer, John the Orangeman, Memorial Hall, "Copey," "Kitty," and the Yard are blended in a brilliant panorama. He makes Harvard the incongruous yet integrated mixture of intellect and individuality, of rum and sophomoric rebellion, of great wealth and simplicity, that it appears to the undergraduate...
...there has been little open cleavage between the Irish inheritors of wealth, position and authority and those with longer established antecedents. A "good front" has always been a Boston and Massachusetts tradition, and the Princes of the Roman Catholic Church, the Presidents of Harvard University, the Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and the Governors of the Commonwealth regularly occupy adjacent positions of honor at all public functions, subscribe their names as patrons to the same good works, and support very nearly the same causes and matters of public policy. An Irishman who is a Knight of Malta was elected...
...Extension," the 128-mile over-water rail route to the southernmost city in the U. S. It was dedicated, as was virtually everything else on that occasion, to Henry Morrison Flagler, most brilliant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil partners. Having lavished his brains and his oil wealth on a Florida railroad and Florida hotels, Founder Flagler proposed to open up Cuba and the Caribbean. With a terminal only 92 miles from Havana by car ferry, the Key West Extension was to provide all-rail communication to the Island Republic, and Key West was to become a great...