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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pastor John Roach Straton hastened to write out a 5,000-word apologia pro sua vita. There was no Pentecostalism rife in Calvary Bapist Church; the woman of Lindbergh Monday was a victim of the general Manhattan hysteria or was ill; the five deacons were fractious and had better have resigned; they were "making a grandstand play for publicity." He concluded: "In closing I wish to say that I was duly elected as the engineer of this Gospel train here at Calvary Baptist Church. And throughout the ten years of my leadership the overwhelming majority of the officers...
...support the thesis on which the Cunningham treatment rests. As independent investigators have never checked up on the subject (for reasons that are rather obvious-namely, the tremendous expense of the apparatus) there is nothing to support Dr. Cunningham's statements or theories except his own unsupported word.... It is our personal belief that Dr. Cunningham, at any rate at the outset, was perfectly sincere and honest in his belief that he had stumbled on something. As is always the case, however, when some new method of treating human beings is carried out without any independent check or balances...
...roast, remembered that President Roosevelt had expressed keen enjoyment of it. A cowpuncher also presented the President with 18 Chinese pheasants, hoped that they would be served at the first Custer Park meal. ¶Though making frequent car-end appearances at various brief stops, the President said hardly a word, left greeting-acknowledgments largely to Mrs. Coolidge. Despatches reported that one farmer nudged his wife, observed to her: "He don't talk; she does the talking...
...German soil. When these Russian matters were up for discussion, Foreign Minister August Zaleski of Poland was to be seen anxiously pattering in and out of M. Briand's bedchamber. When within, he often sat, rumor told, close at the bedside of M. Briand, attentive to his every word This was natural, this was prudent for France is the avowed protectress of Poland, and never was such protection more needed than last week, when Russo-Polish strife hung in the air. Shelved. The Council postponed consideration of the Albania-Jugoslavia dispute (TIME, June 6), and delayed to the September...
...China, the great Chang Tso-lin. Japan has supported his Manchurian régime. Great Britain is believed to have poured not a little gold into his coffers. Last week he was engaged in the gesture of proclaiming himself "Dictator." In a harsh, compelling voice he swore a 20-word oath of his own devising, to the effect that his armies will now "purge China of Communism." Unfortunately all this meant nothing whatever. Chang has always been an absolute autocrat in his own dominions. He has told correspondents almost every day for at least a year that his armies were...