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...Newton Duke were young?Mary, and "Angy" (Angier), who fell from a yacht tender at Newport in 1923 and was drowned?Dr. Few used to ride with them in their ponycart. Like many another Duke official, he is a Rotarian. A friend of North Carolina's hard-bitten little Methodist ex-Senator Furnifold McLendel Simmons, he was like him a leading Hoovercrat. Many North Carolinians believe Dr. Few to be a shrewd, astute politician backed by the Duke Endowment, heading a powerful lobby which could swing the election, for example, of a Methodist bishop, or aid in such an appointment...
Biggest loss of members was suffered by the Methodist Episcopal Church: 43,211 during the year. Other losses: Oriental Orthodox, 37,200; Presbyterian, 22,763; Disciples of Christ, 18,567; Unitarian...
...Kansas City, where Novelist Harry Sinclair Lewis observed the clergy and evolved Elmer Gantry (TIME, March 14, 1927), Rev. Jesse E. Baker recently surprised his respectable Avondale Methodist Church congregation with a sermon defending a local widow who had been the subject of much moral gossip. Last week he surprised them further by marrying the widow, a Mrs. Stella Gibson...
...William Henry Holtzclaw (born in Roanoke, Ala.), founder and principal of Utica Normal and Industrial School at Utica, Miss.; James G. Carter (born in Brunswick, Ga.), U. S. Consul in Calais, France; C. C. Alleyne (born in the West Indies), Bishop of the New York district of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church; Thomas M. Campbell, who received last January one of the Harmon awards ($400 and a gold medal) in Farming & Rural Life...
...sacred thirst pledge" of this Methodist campaign is, oddly, not Methodist but Roman Catholic, the invention of Father Theobald Mathew (1790-1856), an Irish Capuchin friar whose statue adorns the main thoroughfare of Dublin in the immediate vicinity of one of that city's most popular bars.* Father Mathew, after working for 24 years in Cork, founding schools, opening a cemetery and engaging in rescue work during the cholera epidemic of 1832, signed the pledge when he was 48 and crusaded all over Ireland on behalf of teetotalism. His pledge, as adopted by the Methodists, reads...