Word: wesley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...replacing political appointees in Latin-American posts with career men. To replace genial old (74) Indiana Novelist Meredith Nicholson as Minister to Nicaragua went Pierre de Lagarde Boal, 45, now Embassy counselor in Mexico City. To replace genial, middle-aged (55) Findley Burtch Howard as Minister to Paraguay went Wesley Frost, recently Embassy counselor in Santiago, Chile...
Official confirmation of the appointment of Earl M. Brown as head basketball coach and end coach of football came yesterday from William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics. Brown, the present end coach of football and Freshman basketball mentor at Brown University, succeeds Wesley E. Fesler, who resigned to accept the head grid post at Wesleyan...
...next brother, A. D. Peace, was shot in the shoulder and head. His next brother, A. S. Peace, was shot through the stomach. His next brother, Ira J. Peace, was killed at Gettysburg. His next brother, George K. Peace, had his leg shot off. His next brother, J. Wesley Peace, had his little toe shot off. All in war. Do you blame the Peaces for moving out of Peaceburg when the Army moved...
...pikestaff-plain chapels which Methodism's Founder John Wesley built had no organ, no steeple, no bell. Most Methodist churches are still on the bare side. But Christ Church's pastor, Dr. Ralph Washington Sockman, preacher on NBC's National Radio Pulpit, is all for decoration. Says he: "In the past two decades Protestant churches have made a marked advance in the quality of their church architecture . . . with emphasis on the altar rather than on the pulpit. The theatre type of auditorium is giving way to the stately nave...
Heading the list were the Committee's honorary chairman, Professor Frans Boas, and Professor Wesley C. Mitchell, both former presidents of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences; Oswald Garrison Villard, former publisher and editor of "The Nation"; Dr. Carleton Washburne, president of the Progressive Education Association; Professor Ralph Barton Perry of Harvard University, author of the Pulitzer Prize biography of William James...