Word: western
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...important by-product of the Jones missionary work is the impending disintegration of India's rock-ribbed caste system. The Nationalist movement and infiltrations of Western civilization have already shaken it. But, says Dr. Jones. Christianity's recognition of individuals and their equality in the sight of God will deal the most telling blow...
...Track. Western Conference Indoor Track Championship?Won by Iowa, with a total of 29? points in a meet at Iowa City...
...most timorous mergophobe need not fear that the deal will create a world communications monopoly. Still the active, eager competitor of I.T.&T.'s wire systems is the mighty Western Union. Looming is a battle with Britain's merged cable-wireless companies. And for good measure, last week, Sweden's Kreuger & Toll (holding and financing company for the Swedish match trust) threatened to invade the foreign telephone field, in direct competition with...
When Charles Edwin Mitchell, head of Manhattan's National City Bank, was a young man he copied orders for the Western Electric Co. Making several carbon copies legible through the medium of a stub pen required a firm, indeed a strong, hand. Strong-handed, Banker Mitchell is also strongwilled. Last week he halted a collapse on the Stock Market, "slapped the Federal Reserve Board squarely in the face," heard Virginia's Senator Glass demand his resignation from the directorate of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, announced the absorption of Farmers' Loan & Trust...
Died. The Rt. Rev. Charles Henry Brent, 66, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Western New York (Buffalo) ; of heart disease; in Lausanne, Switzerland. He was a Canadian clergy- man's son. Longtime Bishop of the Philippines, he there confirmed John Joseph Pershing and began his zealous campaigning against the opium trade. Later he was chief chaplain of the A. E. F. and president of the World Conference on Faith and Order (Lausanne, 1927). Devout and dignified, he became the dominant U. S. Episcopal clergyman. He believed in world peace and church union, was opposed to Prohibition. Years...