Word: bechtel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Socialism Second. After a three-year course at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary on a scholarship, Bechtel went' to Butte in 1913 as pastor of the Immanuel Presbyterian Church there. Salary: $75 a month. His angry pro-labor sermons won him the support of the Socialists, who ran him for state senator. Though he refused to campaign, he won anyway. Senator Bechtel introduced bills for adult education and workmen's compensation and against capital punishment. But when he introduced a bill for Prohibition, the Socialists dropped...
...this political activity did Bechtel small good with his church. After three years, they refused to renew his contract, and he moved on. For the next three decades, he served a series of parishes, on both sides of the tracks, gained some reputation as a radio preacher in Wisconsin, and in 1944 found himself executive secretary of the Detroit Presbytery...
...October 1946, his telephone rang. Someone he had never heard of before wanted to give the Presbyterians a church. Bechtel hurried right over...
Colonel Edwin S. George, a rich, nonchurchgoing Presbyterian businessman (real estate) with heart trouble, already had the plans drawn up for the church he wanted to build on his estate. Bechtel agreed to become the first pastor of the Kirk-in-the-Hills...
Preacher Wanted. After six years, the congregation (712 members) is sorry to see Leslie Bechtel go. But as he and his wife set out this week for the Wisconsin woods, Pastor Bechtel looked forward to getting away from the things that money will buy. "Talk about trouble," he recently told a friend. "I never knew people could have so much trouble until I came here. Suicides, family separations, juvenile delinquency-it's enough to wear...