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Last fall President Jean S. Milner of the Presbyterian Board of National Missions sent Pastor Evans an unprecedented job offer. "We need you, Lou," he wrote, "to perform a unique ministry to this nation which is not now being fulfilled by any Protestant church . . . We need your ministry in a preaching mission in our great American cities from coast to coast, and in the huge gatherings in conventions of leaders of labor, of education, of industry ... in a spiritual ministry carried directly to a whole nation." Fortnight ago, after a long time thinking the offer over, Pastor Evans accepted...
Some 70 years ago, a reform-minded general named Arabi Pasha led his brother officers in overthrowing a corrupt Egyptian government. After a sharp look at the crusading officers, England's great colonizer, Lord Milner, wrote: "It is possible to approve their aims and yet to disbelieve entirely in their capacity to carry them out." Eight months after he took power, Arabi fell, unable to control the forces he had unleashed...
...Henry Zweifel [Texas Republican national committeeman] spoke in Houston and threw out an open invitation to Democrats to come into the Republican precinct conventions. And whom did they elect on the Zweifel-Taft delegation, as delegate for this district to the Republican National Convention? The answer is R. W. Milner Jr., who was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1948, a delegate to the Democratic state convention in 1950 . . . [The Taftmen] only object to former Democrats who support General Eisenhower...
When blatant Bill Jack and his quiet partner Ralph M. Heintz peddled their war baby last spring to Manhattan engineer B. C. Milner Jr. and Byron C. Foy, onetime vice president of Chrysler Corp., they got 1) roughly $8 million in cash and stock, 2) five-year contracts at $40,000 a year, 3) promises to retain their employe program...
...wraps, go conventional on public relations. Rasped B.C.: "One of the most unfortunate things in Jahco was its having Bill Jack as public relations man." Nothing was said of the fact that this "unfortunate thing" was one big element in making the Jahco baby so good a buy for Milner and friends, a nice sale for partners Jack & Heintz...