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Pursuant to instructions of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South's, general conference at Dallas last spring (TIME, May 26, et seq.), Bishop Edwin DuBose Mouzon of Charlotte, N. C. sailed into Rio de Janeiro's mountain-shadowed harbor last week. A motor procession carried him and his party to a conference with important Brazilian Methodists. They at once began to write a constitution for a Methodist Church of Brazil. Just arrived from Europe with his new wife and meeting them was Bishop James Cannon Jr., the Southern Methodists' missionary bishop of Brazil, as well as chairman...
...Briton who rejoiced secretly at the Canadian victory of Conservative Bennett was Conservative Stanley Baldwin. He has been fighting tooth & nail to keep control of his party from the British "Press Lords" Baron Beaverbrook and Viscount Rothermere with their pet policy of Empire free trade (TIME, Dec. 2 et seq). Stanley Baldwin, personally a free trader, was grudgingly forced to accept Empire free trade when popular opinion seemed to demand it. Australia's mountainous tariff and absolute embargoes, conservative Canada's high tariff policy, gave Stanley Baldwin one more chance to declare his independence of the Press Lords...
Last year the Arabs made the Wall a prime factor in their war upon Zionism. As Jews went to their weeping places, rowdy Arab boys molested them. Riots ensued which spread throughout Palestine. About 100 Jews were killed, a few Arabs (TIME, Aug. 26, et seq...
...last February. Thus informally, according to Mr. Grace's testimony last week, was negotiated the Bethlehem-youngstown merger, to prevent which Cyrus Stephen Eaton of Cleveland, big Youngstown stockholder, has had his lawyers at work for 16 weeks in an epochal fight (TIME, March 24 et seq.). Mr. Grace's testimony supplied many another lively item last week. He told the court that Bethlehem officers last year received $3,425,000 (6.54% of net earnings before depreciation) in bonuses, that he himself received a bonus of $1,623,000 figured on a mysterious "factor" that increases in good...
Standard. The hearings in the Government's suit to restrain Standard Oil Co. of New York from merging with Vacuum Oil Co. (TIME, March 3 et seq.) reached an end last week in Manhattan. Vacuum Director Harold F. Sheets, the last witness, analyzed world petroleum production in 1929. According to his figures. Royal Dutch Shell was far in the lead with 175,992,000 bbl., with Standard of New Jersey second (101,100,000 bbl.). Socony and Vacuum combined were down in sixth place (57,986.000 bbl.). In daily refinery capacity he put Standard of New Jersey first...