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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nearly 40 years ago. Her church became known as the Pillar of Fire. Widowed, Mrs. White started a pious, shouting, camp-meeting community in New Jersey, named it Zarephath after the place where the "widow woman" sustained Elijah. Alma White was soon acting like a bishop toward her flock; why should she not be "the first woman bishop in the history of the Christian church?" Pillar of Fire consecrated her as such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bishop v. Drink | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...sick man is an all-too-easy victim of the first best quack who happens to cross--and bar--his way; he believes in miracles as the drowning man believes in his straw. Harvard has its quack doctors in plenty, its tutoring schools perched along Massachusetts Avenue. Sick people flock in, sick people flock out. Liberal education at its best...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WORDS TO A NEWER WORLD | 12/13/1939 | See Source »

With a total of 63 entries in the contest to pick a Harvard drum-majorette, the CRIMSON last night was besieged by a flock of high school baton virtuosos who appeared to register in person, accompanied by mothers, aunts, and second cousins...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Batonnetters Register In Person for Contest | 10/28/1939 | See Source »

Appointed, Jeff arrives in Washington with a crate of carrier pigeons and a flock of unfledged ideas. First is to hop a rubberneck bus, inspect Daniel Chester French's noble statue of Lincoln. But when his hardboiled Secretary Saunders (Jean Arthur) tells him why the gang sent him to Washington, dumbellicose Jeff really goes to town on Boss Taylor. Framed on misconduct charges, Jeff filibusters all night by reading to bored, sleepy Senators from the Declaration of Independence, .the U. S. Constitution, the Second Epistle to the Corinthians. At dawn he wins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 23, 1939 | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...correspondent found eleven lucky slum children quartered on a big estate with yew trees, sunken lawns, wrought-iron gates and a flock of servants to wait on them. When he arrived, the children were clinging to their delighted host's coattails, calling him "Uncle." They reported that they had roast beef and Yorkshire pudding for dinner, were allowed to read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Alarums and Excursions (cont'd) | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

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