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...Methodist Episcopal Church set out to elect three bishops. Two they rapidly chose: Dr. Raymond J. Wade of Chicago and Dr. James Chamberlain Baker of Urbana, Ill. Over the many able candidates for the third, they wrangled and ballotted 19 times without avail. At last the two leading candidates withdrew their names, a Korean lady made a potent speech and the Methodists elected the 33rd Bishop of the Church by a sweeping majority. He was the famed Rev. Eli Stanley Jones, missionary in India and author of The Christ of the Indian Road. No sooner had he received this honor...
...apparently irrelevant fact stood like a prognosticating index finger. A month ago the Pennsylvania withdrew its long support from Leonor Fresnel Loree's fifth eastern railroad system and paid him 63 million dollars to drop the matter (TIME, May 7). For getting Mr. Loree out of the railroads' way, the Pennsylvania was to get passage along the southern shore of Lake Erie to Chicago...
...Governor of Naples, Commander Nicola Sansanelli, stepped down upon Manhattan from the same ship as did the Governor of Rome (see above), but promptly withdrew from public notice to further quietly the work of F. I. D. A. C. (The Interallied Society of War Veterans) of which he is President...
...successor to Harry Houdini. One man who had watched the exhibition of miracles was disgusted by them. He was Charles E. Davenport, the manager of Nino Pecoraro, a medium who had issued a challenge to Dunninger for a "phenomena producing" contest. After watching the things which Dunninger did, Davenport withdrew his challenge because Mr. Pecoraro was alleged not to be in the right psychic condition...
Unfortunately the Poles proceeded shortly to make peace with Soviet Russia, whereupon the whole might of the Red Army was thrown against Wrangel. Outnumbered, he was driven back-back & back upon Sevastapol. There he embarked his "White Knights" upon ships furnished by the Little Entente and withdrew his whole army to Constantinople...