In 1934 Evangeline Booth — a daughter of Gen. William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, and its head in the United States since 1904 — was elected general of the International Salvation Army and moved to Britain for five years. She retired in 1939 and returned to her home in the United States.

Marie Joseph Butler, founder of Marymount School (later Marymount College) in Tarrytown, New York, founded new Marymount Colleges in Rome (1930) and Santa Barbara, California (1938).

Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, who became an American citizen in 1909 and died in 1917, was beatified in 1937, the first American to achieve that status. In 1946 she was canonized as the first American saint, and she was named Patroness of Immigrants in 1950.

Warren Akin Candler, who helped to develop Emory University of Atlanta into a distinguished institution, bitterly opposed the union of the northern and southern branches of Methodism...