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...with each other; the women musicians quarreled with Conductress Sundstrom. Several times it looked as if the show could not go on. In 1937, with a deficit of $3,500 on their hands, the orchestra's board of directors elected socialite Mrs. Royden J. Keith president. Mrs. Keith forthwith fired Conductress Sundstrom...
...dissenters forthwith rumped themselves, declared the rump a "reorganization" of the conference they had bolted. Without mentioning bishops, they issued a statement accusing Methodist Church leaders of denying the Virgin Birth and inspiration of the Scriptures, of espousing "modernism, radicalism and communism." The ranks of the dissident M. P.s shortly swelled to 37 ministers and congregations. And they had the small but strengthening assurance that M. P.s elsewhere had done what they were doing: in Mississippi, 47 ministers bolted the Methodist Church; in Michigan, 18; in Georgia and South Carolina, a handful...
...California cousin, Minor Pierce Long. Round, pink-faced Mr. Long is a Missourian who went west and into the dairy business, picked up extra money lecturing on what he calls "metaphysics." One night in 1933, he now recalls, he woke up with an idea for an economic cureall, forthwith explained it to his wife and two daughters. They did not understand it. Minor Pierce Long nevertheless went ahead with his Ray System Corporation, Inc. As has many another fiscal dreamer, he proposed to issue patented, pink & blue Raychecks in denominations of 50? to $10, have merchants redeem them in goods...
...very good time" to be celebrating birthdays, mused the General. He then recommended that the U. S. Army, having just been upped to 227,000 by Presidential decree, be forthwith increased by Congress to full peacetime strength (280,000). "Finally," said he, "I must again recall our deplorable situation when we entered the World War 22 years ago. Then not a single (military) move had been made ... to prepare for it. That experience with its costly lesson, I am happy to say, appears certain to be avoided in the event that we should again become involved...
...Forthwith the farm bill emerged from conference shorn of only $13,000,000 of the Senate's whopping additions. With still more padding in prospect, it totaled $1,205,000,000-a record-and preserved its status as the bill that killed Economy in the 76th Congress...