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With the enthusiasm of a dozen Martin Luthers pelting a dozen devils with inkpots, Rev. Dr. Walter A. Maier of Concordia Theological Seminary (St. Louis, Mo.) addressed 4,000 Lutherans last week at a Luther Day celebration at Ocean Grove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Seven Follies | 7/27/1931 | See Source »

...week Ambroise Thomas' Mignon and Friedrich Smetana's Bartered Bride opened Cincinnati's season: eight weeks of standard grand opera, two of light opera (this year, Vincent Youman's & Herbert Stothart's Wild flower and Rudolf Friml's Firefly). Conductor is Isaac Van Grove. Of the able if not world-celebrated singers the most popular are Sopranos Myrna Sharlow and Josephine Lucchese. Contralto Marta Wittkowska, Tenor Forrest Lamont, Basso Herbert Gould. Last year the Zoo Opera was in need of patrons, felt that an endowment campaign would be necessary if it was to continue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Summer Opera | 6/29/1931 | See Source »

...sent both clippings to old chum and fellow Republican National Committeeman, President William Henry Crocker of Crocker First National Bank of San Francisco (who arrived last week in Manhattan). It was revealed that for nearly 25 years, since they first met at the Bohemian Club's jolly grove near San Francisco, Pedagog Butler and Banker Crocker have been regaling each other across the continent, exchanging things they find amusing. Sometimes they send jokes, sometimes crank letters; but mostly clippings of those little boxed stories called "freaks"' which are the delight of make-up men striving to fill holes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Two Old Gentlemen | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

...court's order New York was allowed to divert 440,000,000 gal. per day from certain tributaries of the Delaware River to add to the city's ever-growing water supply (TIME, April 27). By the same decree Arena (pop. 216), Dunraven (pop. 104), Union Grove (pop. 204), Shavertown (pop. 219), Pepacton (pop. 27) and pos-sibly Downsville (pop. 532) will be blotted out of existence by a great new reservoir which will rise over them when the East Branch of the Delaware* is dammed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dry Gotham (Cont'd) | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

...Governor asked legislators to calculate the cost of their trip to Jackson and send him a check for the amount to complete the Juniper Grove Baptist Church. Said he: "In this way you'll help the Lord instead of the Big Four to play politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Bilbo v. Big Four | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

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