Word: churched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chief radio critic of Orator Coughlin is Father William Charles Kernan (pronounced Kernan), a Yale-trained ('23) high church Episcopalian, rector of Bayonne, N. J.'s Trinity Episcopal Church. Last fortnight, in the fourth of a series of anti-Coughlin blasts on Manhattan Station...
...Gallup poll reported that 50% of the U. S. public go to church less often than their parents did; 18% more often; 32% "about the same." Asked whether interest in religion was increasing or decreasing, only 27% of farmers and 29% of small-town residents thought that interest had increased, but 42% of city dwellers thought so. Possible explanation: city folks hear more about the world's troubles-a reason given by many a police for reg turning to the church. According to the poll, 31% of the people listen to church services on the radio. >In the Survey...
...generation ago, U. S. immigrants found sanctuary and a melting pot in church or shop. Today's immigrants, a more intellectual group, find both in school. Most famed German immigrants welcomed by U. S. schools are Thomas Mann, now at Princeton, and Albert Einstein, at the nearby Institute for Advanced Study. At the New School for Social Research in Manhattan is a "University in Exile," whose entire faculty consists of European notables. But it is as students, not teachers, that many refugees have found a chance to begin life afresh in U. S. colleges,* public and private schools...
...company in the U. S.-the $50,000,000 Pacific States Savings & Loan Co. The three battlers: 1) California's Building & Loan Commissioner Ralph Willard Evans, who fortnight ago took over Pacific States "to conserve and protect the investments of thousands of people"; 2) retired Millionaire Norman Waite Church, who was appointed custodian of the company; 3) ham-fisted Robert Stewart Odell, Pacific States' chief owner...
...direct answer. Instead he brought a spectacular counterattack. He claimed that Commissioner Evans is a political minion of Governor Olson and that they are ganging up on him because he did not contribute enough to their 1938 campaign fund. He based this in part upon the appointment of Norman Church as Pacific States' custodian...