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...husky, goateed churchman who once was a high-school football coach in North Dakota, 62-year-old Rector Mook had for ten years been at old Trinity Church in Seattle's run-down "First Hill" district. A vigorous social worker, he offended some of his parishioners by encouraging theatrical folk to come to the church. More vexing to the Trinity vestry were financial troubles which had beset the church for four years. Last spring Rector Mook declined to let his salary be cut from $4,000 to $2,400 or to cancel $1,000 the church owed...
Editor of the new biweekly is Rev. Dr. Edmund B. Chaffee, an energetic, square-faced, 40-year-old churchman with a great passion for social betterment. Born near Detroit, he studied law at the University of Michigan, went to Union Theological Seminary, got a Manhattan pastorate in 1916 which he promptly lost because of his pacifism. Mr. (as he prefers to be called) Chaffee served in Jerusalem as a Red Cross captain. When he returned to the U. S. he took the job he still holds-director of the Presbyterian Labor Temple on Manhattan's radical 14th Street. Founded...
...social-minded churchman who was born 44 years ago in South Dakota, Dwight Bradley studied at Oberlin College and the Pacific School of Religion. After holding four pastorates scattered from California to Ohio he went to Boston, became president of the city's Federation of Churches, rescued it from doldrums. At Union Church he will try much the same thing. Though it has had such able pastors as Rev. Dr. Ernest Graham Guthrie (now of Chicago) and the late Rev. Dr. Nehemiah Boynton, Union Church has but 389 enrolled members. Surrounded by lodging houses, it draws polyglot congregations...
...late William C. Bitting Sr. was a Baptist minister in St. Louis, a warm friend of John D. Rockefeller Sr. Never an active churchman, rotund, convivial, energetic Son Bitting specializes in church and religious bonds. In 25 years he has floated $90,000,000 worth. To most of his clients he points with pride. But when he comes to the Methodist Episcopal Church, largest U. S. Protestant denomination, Bondman Bitting begins to splutter...
...oldtime stage actor, film actor since 1910; after an operation; in Hollywood. British-born, he deserted the law for which he had been educated, played in stock companies, served as a nurse in the Spanish-American War, tried farming in the Midwest, drifted into the early cinema. A pious churchman in private life, he played wise, kind, whimsical oldsters (Outward Bound, Arrowsmith, The Case of Sergeant Grischa...