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...appearance he is tall, tending toward fleshiness in recent years. He has a broad mouth, which smiles easily, the sharp, inquisitive nose of the born prosecutor. A little fuzz is left atop his long head. He dresses neatly, quietly. He is a Methodist, Mason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 24, 1934 | 9/24/1934 | See Source »

...Frederick William Norwood, a broad-faced, shaggy-locked, Australian-born divine who has long ministered to people of all creeds at London's City Temple. Currently in the U. S. as an exchange preacher, Dr. Norwood spoke last month at Ocean Grove, N. J., an unworldly Methodist resort featuring oldtime camp meetings. Last week he was at Manhattan's Riverside Church. At no time in his tour has Dr. Norwood made so bold as to evaluate U. S. religion or speculate as to its future. But back in London, in Dr. Norwood's own pulpit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Dead & Dying | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

...expense of that society. The request for his visit was made with the hope that satisfactory and mutually beneficial arrangements to care for the bond issue might be made. The arbitrary attitude then assumed by Mr. Bitting, and which finally prompted his unprecedented tirade against the Methodist Church, prevented the making of any headway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 20, 1934 | 8/20/1934 | See Source »

...Methodist Hospital of Southern California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 20, 1934 | 8/20/1934 | See Source »

...Methodist women could not afford to pay, Bondman Bitting might be less bitter. But four trips to Los Angeles have convinced him otherwise. At its annual meeting last year, he discovered, the California Society reported total receipts of $87,281. Of that, $35,371 went to National Headquarters in Ohio. Thence, presumably, it went to China. For its U. S. bondholders, Mr. Bitting was informed on his last trip, the Society had nothing, would promise nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Defaulting Methodists | 7/30/1934 | See Source »

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