Word: wesley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Roman Catholic), was host recently at a luncheon held in a San Francisco convent, to Protestant and Jewish leaders of the city, on behalf of the city's Community Chest. Prominent religious leaders present included Rabbi Jacob Nieto, Bishop Edward L. Parsons of the Episcopal Church, Bishop Charles Wesley Burns of the Methodist Church and Chester Rowell, California progressive, former publisher of the Fresno (Calif.) Republican, all of whom spoke...
...Senator Wesley L. Jones of Washington, "blue law" booster, is having trouble with A. Scott Bullitt, Wet and potent Democrat. Each candidate is anxious to have Senator "Jim" Reed investigate the other's campaign expenses. A Jones advocate cried last week: "If you can get President Coolidge to come out and tell the people of Washington State that he won't let Senator Jones close the moving picture houses on Sunday, I can promise you that the Senator will be re-elected...
...John Wesley Langley, beloved soak, bleary-eyed disciple of Sir John Falstaff,† was ten times elected Congressman from Kentucky by bone-dry, Fundamentalist, Republican mountaineers. His tongue knew well the golden mellowness of old Kentucky "corn," his hand had felt the frost of tall mint juleps, but he remained faithful, legislatively, to the arid principles of his constituents. He had been arrested for intoxication in both Pikeville, Ky., and Washington, D. C., but Congressmen continued to admire his genial philosophy, his legal knowledge. He is now serving a two-year term in the Atlanta penitentiary for conspiracy to violate...
...faith with these who sleep on Flooders Field," since we went into the World War "to end a war". "The God of Peace" and thereby "keep the faith with these who sleep on Flanders Field," since we went into the World War "to end a war." Sincerely, John Wesley Grande IT.S...
...Judge; James A. Leyden, Penn State, and Leslie H. Simons, Princeton, Measurers. Throwing the Discus: Walter Tufts, Harvard, Judge; J. E. Hickley, Brown, Measurer. Putting, the 16 Ib. Shot: E. L. Hopkins, B. A. A., Judge; J. R. Truesdale, Princeton, and J. B. Mulford, Pennsylvania, Measurers. High Jump: Wesley Aler, Yale, Judge; Barrett Smith, Cornell, and Rush M. Hoag, Michigan, Measurers. Throwing the Hammer; F. X. McGrath, B. A. A., Judge; H. F. Barker, Princeton, and N. Shennan, Dartmouth, Measurers. Broad Jump: Ralph Gamble, Princeton, Judge; C. D. Wadsworth, Williams, and A. C. Kraenzlein, Pennsylvania, Measurers. Inspectors of Implements: George...