Word: wesley
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Danville (pop. 6,800) another Judge Harlan gazed sternly at two young men before him. He was Police Judge Jay W. Harlan, a third cousin. One of the young men was Jack Durham, 23, city editor of the Danville Advocate and local correspondent for Associated Press. The other was Wesley Carty, 23, correspondent for the Louisville Courier-Journal. The judge, trying to learn who was responsible for hanging of a State Representative in effigy, was sure the newshawks could tell him. because they admitted knowing in advance that the hanging would occur. Who, then, had told them...
...author is minister of the Wesley Methodist Church in Minneapolis. A widely circulated questionnaire, which has just been tabulated, discloses the fact that of some 25,000 American clergy only five per-cent are content with the capitalistic system. Mr. Mecklenburg belongs to the other ninety-five per-cent. He went to Russia willing to learn. Whether he was let see what he might have liked to see we do not know. He seems to think that he moved about freely; and now, certainly, he speaks out his mind...
...least interesting part of this book is a preliminary twenty pages in which the Secretary-Treasurer of the Organized Unemployed, Inc., of Minneapolis--an outgrowth of Dr. Mecklenburg's work at Wesley Church-tells us how the author has grappled with the depression. 400,000 meals served, 400,000 leaves of bread baked and sold for 2 1-2 cents scrip, 10,000 pairs of shoes repaired, 8,000 cords of wood sawed, etc. . . . Mr. Mecklenburg feels that the answer of American religion to Russia must be as concrete as the challenge. To his credit be it said that...
...South Dakota were cause for excitement at the stockholders' meeting of Chicago & North Western Ry. Drought and a grasshopper plague had combined with Depression to push North Western's deficit to $11,216,000 in 1932. Last year it was cut to $7,875,000. President Fred Wesley Sargent told his stock-holders last week that if North Western's earnings continued at the rate enjoyed for the first quarter the road would finish this year with a $2,000,000 profit...
...final attempt to raise the prestige of Harvard basketball, Coach Wesley Fesler has issued a call for candidates for his spring practice sessions. All returning members of the Varsity and Jayvee squads, and those Freshman who are not competing in other sports this spring, have been requested to report at the New Indoor Athletic Building next Monday to begin the series of tri-weekly practices...