Word: westerner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Denever, Col., September 28--One of the interesting discoveries in the course of the writer's Western migration is that out in this friendly region even Harvard and Princeton men do not hate one another...
Other speakers found other faults, suggested remedies. Said small, earnest Dr. Roy H. Akagi of Japan: "If Christianity is to become a living force to the Japanese people, it must first be Japanized." Said vigorous Dr. John R. Mott: "A synthesis of Eastern & Western relationships must claim all secular agencies as well as our Christian organizations. . . ." Other speakers pointed out that racial prejudice hampered African Missions, that the Church Charities are joined in "common law marriage" to extraneous economic agencies. Said explosive Dr. Sherwood Eddy, Y.M.C.A. Secretary at large for Asia: "The new slogan is not to evangelize...
...Harry Emerson Fosdick, of Union Theological Seminary and of the Park Avenue Baptist Church in Manhattan, were added to the vesper services. Last week, these were formally organized as the National Church of the Air. A representative of the radio committee of the Federation is now touring western cities to stimulate interest in the National Church of the Air, perhaps to enlarge its audience which is reached now through 13 stations...
Gamblers, western bartenders, lottery sharpers of the Mississippi Valley, touts, awoke New Year's Day to a surprise; pondered the resolution of Publisher Fred G. Bonfils: Through his Denver Post he announced the establishment of the Frederick G. Bonfils Foundation for the "Betterment of Mankind." Said...
...business partner with whom he made the Denver Post a potent factor in Western life was H. H. Tammen, garrulous bartender...