Word: woodcrest
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...Angeles, Pastor Carl Allen of Woodcrest Community Methodist Episcopal Church got the approval of his governing board to change the Sabbath services for his flock of 115 to Thursday evening. A confirmed reformer who went on the stump for Upton Sinclair's EPIC last year, long-faced, sober Pastor Allen explained: "The residents of this community are working every possible day to make up for the worry during the Depression. ... I believe they should be free to go to the beach or mountains Sunday without feeling it is wrong. . . . Jesus consistently taught that man was to have preference over...
...cross-examination of Mrs. Dorrance counsel for the Commonwealth tried hard to establish that household expenditures at Woodcrest far exceeded those at Pomona Farms...
...suit to collect $31,465,200 inheritance taxes from the estate of the late Dr. John Thompson Dorrance, founder and 94% owner of Campbell Soup Co. The Commonwealth, which appraises the estate at $200,000,000. contends that Dr. Dorrance's real home was his estate Woodcrest, at Radnor, Delaware County, which he acquired in 1925. The doctor's widow, Mrs. Ethel Mallinckrodt Dorrance, his brothers Dr. George Morris and Arthur C. (respectively chairman of the board and president of the Campbell company) and his lawyers insist that his only permanent residence from 1910 was at Pomona Farms...
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