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...Protestant churches, warm weather brings conferences and assemblies. Ministers meet, talk, elect officers, pass resolutions, shake hands, go home with new pious zeal. Last week met the following church groups: Dunkers or Dunkards are so named because they dunk. Descended from German pietists of the 18th Century, they believe not only in baptism by immersion but in strict Biblical interpretation, passive resistance to force, rigid avoidance of tobacco, spirits, musical instruments and, until recently, electricity, automobiles and telephones. Last week on the Brubaker Farm near Eaton, Ohio gathered 8,000 Dunkers, the men in black coats and broad-brimmed hats...
Four pages, battering with the ineffectiveness of pop pistols against the stury fortress of Namur, represent the hysterical attempt of our brethren to shake off the "irons of serfdom". Using for a criterion the old Harvard Herald which subsided into silence in 1883, the prevailing tone of the issue represents not only the spirit of a by-gone era but also the general effect of a much used trick...
...Exchange's die-hard policies had filled Wall Street for months. Richard Whitney was named for his fourth term and seven of the ten retiring directors were renominated. Nomination for president is tantamount to election. Nevertheless, it was clear that what for the Stock Exchange was a major shake-up had occurred. The three governors not renominated were all members of the committee on publicity, including the chairman and the vice chairman. Until President Whitney boldly stepped to the head of the drive against the Stock Exchange Bill last February, the New York Stock Exchange had the worst press...
...Hicks, summoned to the scene of the crime the next morning for the express purpose of cleaning up the glass, took one look at the huge hole in the window, asked one penetrating question: "Was the window open when he threw the revolver?"; offered one valuable suggestion: "You better shake out your shoes before you wear them again...
TRUMPETER, SOUND! - D. L. Murray - Knopf ($2.50). Fiction up-to-date: Victorian London, an innocent actress, a dashing hussar. Balaclava and the Charge of the Light Brigade. Shake well and add a pinch of salt...