Word: churched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...More often the strike is completely illegal, but that does not make the landlords much happier. Last month when 83 police smashed through a strikers' barricade in Stepney, East End London borough, and evicted five families, Tenant Defence detachments promptly reinstated them. Boasts Father John Groser, Church of England leader of the Stepney strike: "Many landlords have watched the straws in the wind and capitulated to just demands. Those who refuse, we are forced to fight-and we haven't lost a case...
Baptist Truett, 72, North Carolina-born, was made a preacher against his will at 19, when his church "voiced its conviction that God had called George W. Truett to the ministry," and more or less forcibly ordained him. Preacher Truett founded a high school-Georgia's Hiawassee, now a junior college-before he finished college himself, at 30. For 42 years he has been pastor of First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas, which today has an enrollment of more than 6,000 and a $1,000,000 institutional plant. Dr. Truett has traveled the world over on Baptist business...
...much-neglected saint until the late Dempster MacMurphy, business manager of the Chicago Daily News, took him up, wrote an annual piece about him (TIME, March 6). Last Sunday Most Rev. Francis J. Monaghan, Roman Catholic Bishop of Ogdensburg, N. Y., laid the cornerstone of the first U. S. church dedicated to Dismas. Its location: inside the north gate of Clinton Prison, Dannemora, N. Y. Prisoners are building the church with stone from the prison quarry...
Plump Mrs. Anthony Geraci, goodwife of The Bronx, N. Y., limped to St. Lucy's Roman Catholic Church one evening last week, leaning on a cane. Her dragging left foot was supported in a steel brace. After services in the church, Mrs. Geraci and some 500 other worshippers followed Father Pasquale T. Lombardo to St. Lucy's new, $10,000 outdoor shrine, a replica of the famed grotto at Lourdes. Mrs. Geraci went to the shrine's pool, fed by city water trickling over big rocks below a statue of the Virgin...
Married. Dr. Elinor Whitney Fosdick, 27, physician-daughter of Rev. Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, pastor of Manhattan's Riverside Church; and Dr. Sherman Roger Downs, 28, medical researcher; on Mouse Island...