Word: chaplain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are about 1,600 full and part-time Army chaplains, 126 attached to the regular force, 200 to the CCC, the remainder to the National Guard and Reserve Corps. For every 100,000 civilian members of a U. S. church, one chaplain .is supplied to the Army, an interfaith commission acting as clearing house for the men. Applicants, who must be ordained and have three years' pastoral experience, take a stiff examination, if successful are commissioned as first lieutenants at $200 a month ($260 if married and not residents of an Army post). Top rank is colonel, with...
Last year three important U. S. churches, the Methodist, Evangelical & Reformed and Disciples of Christ, disowned the commission which appoints chaplains. Many a U. S. churchman would strip the chaplain of his rank and uniform. Of this the Association meeting in Chicago last week was acutely conscious, but an estimated 90% of its membership is satisfied with the chaplaincy as now constituted, and the matter was not publicly discussed. Said one chaplain loftily: "We prefer to emphasize our principles by example rather than debate." Said U. S. Chief of Chaplains Alva Jennings Brasted: "We have no grievance against anyone. Countless...
...calendar of German courts went the trials of Catholic nuns and priests for violations of the exchange laws diplomatically dropped last summer just before the Olympic Games. None of these came to trial last week, but as a feeler the People's Prosecutor took up the case of Chaplain Joseph Roussaint of Düsseldorf. Effort was made to prove the chaplain the organizer and ringleader of a united Catholic-Communist front. So little evidence of this could be produced that the prosecutor finally demanded 15 years' imprisonment for the less spectacular crime of "consorting with known Communists...
...Missouri Senate chose its first female chaplain, Rev. Mrs. Sophia Fritts, Christian Church pastor in Pleasant Hill. Said she: "I can guarantee there will be no long prayers...
...Spanish treasure, he pushed north in search of an Arctic passage back to England. One day in the spring of 1579, he sailed into a "convenient and fit harborough" somewhere near the future site of San Francisco. There he received the homage of native Indians and, according to his chaplain's account, nailed to a "faire great poste"a brass plaque claiming "Nova Albion"in the name of Her Majesty. Then Francis Drake sailed on west round the world, and his plaque vanished into history...