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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...something no British King before him ever did: he went to an airdrome and, in a hangar, personally decorated five members of the R. A. F. Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross were Flying Officers K. C. Doran, who led the raid on the Kiel Canal, and A. McPherson, who scouted for it; T. M. Wetherall Smith and John Barrett, who landed in heavy seas to rescue the crew of the torpedoed Kensington Court. To Sergeant Pilot W. E. Willits, who brought his ship out of a dive and landed it after the first pilot had been killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE AIR: Wings for an Empire | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Birthdays. King Carol of Rumania, his 46th; Aimee Semple McPherson, her 49th; Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, her 55th (see p. 19); William Richard Morris, Lord Nuffield, Britain's No. 1 automogul ("The Morris Car is a Ford with an Oxford Education"), his 62nd, Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, his 67th...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 23, 1939 | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Last week Federal District Judge James McPherson Proctor upheld the A. M. A.'s demurrer and tore up the indictment, which he called "a highly colored, argumentative discourse . . . abounding in uncertain statements." Thurman Arnold's boss, Attorney General Murphy, immediately announced that he would continue the fight "on different issues," in the Circuit and Supreme Courts. Warned the Department of Justice: "The Government's prosecution policy toward boycotts in the medical profession is unchanged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A.M.A. v. Arnold | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...Aimee McPherson tried, years ago, to start a church here, but she was told to flit! The GREAT I AM did not originate here either, nor did the $30 every Thursday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 28, 1938 | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

Celebrating what she called her 46th* birthday with a jolly, jampacked jubilee in Los Angeles' Angelus Temple, Evangelist Aimee ("Dear Sister") Semple McPherson romped out in front of her congregation appropriately dressed as a milkmaid, carrying a glistening pail brimful of milk. Pals and paid hands on the stage were treated to drinks. When the pail was empty, Sister Aimee began to sing (see cut), then took up a collection, dumped it in the pail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 24, 1938 | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

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