Word: meridians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every day some 50,000 New Yorkers spend a nickel to dial MEridian 7-1212, hear a telephone operator chirp the correct time. This week, to "increase the scope and value" of its services-and to collect an estimated 3,000 nickels a day-the New YorkTelephone Co. opens a new exchange. Dialers will hear a 25-second weather report, recorded on magnetic tape from information supplied at least four times daily by the U. S. Weather Bureau. Phone: WEather...
...jealous joy of Florida, Franklin Roosevelt radioed his national benediction from Key West (see p. 13). Other orators of State and church completed the inaugural, but the sublimest signal of all had been furnished the night prior at 10:30 p. m. by the sun itself, then riding at meridian over India. Its noonday rays impinged upon a photoelectric cell in Bombay, closing electric circuits by radio to start the carillon in the Tower of the Sun (400 ft., the fair's tallest). The carillon thereupon chimed out the fair's theme song, "The Bells of Treasure Island...
...cost of the proposed new plants: Saranac Lake, N. Y., $225,000; Mount Pleasant, Mich., $218,000; Covington, Va., $181,636: Galax, Va., $129,000; Caruthersville, Mo., $79,000; Cleveland, Okla., $63,000; Okmulgee, Okla., $406,800; Columbus, Miss., $126,000 plus a loan of $155,000; Meridian, Miss., $638,182 plus a loan of $780,000; Cuero, Tex., $101,000: Gonzales, Tex., $78,000; San Antonio, Tex., $2,770,000; Texarkana, Tex., $245,000 plus a loan of $300,000; Weslaco, Tex., $94,500; Wharton, Tex., $90,000; Wichita Falls, Tex., $787,000 plus a loan...
...Assembly, the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A heartened hopers for church unity by its mastery of both tact and tactics. Ever since the Civil War this church has remained separated from the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. (South). Last week, winding up their General Assembly in Meridian. Miss., Southern Presbyterians approved the work of their committee which is negotiating a reunion with the Northern church. And in Philadelphia. for the first time in nearly 50 years, the Northern Presbyterians elected a Moderator from the South. (Although there are no Southern churches in the North, there...
...manifestation of His glory, some men and angels are predestined unto everlasting life and others foreordained to everlasting death. And their number is so certain and definite that it cannot be either increased or diminished." Last week, at the annual Southern Presbyterian General Assembly in Meridian, Miss., this statement came up for discussion. Many a minister defended it, others found it an overstatement which "keeps our ministers constantly on the defensive." The Assembly voted, 151-to-130, to delete the two hard sentences from the confession of faith...