Word: churchmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three churchmen were employing minstrel technique for a definite purpose- to kindle tolerance and goodwill among their respective faiths. Called the "Tolerance Trio," they were embarked last week on a Southern tour under the auspices of the National Conference of Jews and Christians, a body jointly chair-manned by Protestant Newton Diehl Baker, Jew Roger Williams Straus and Catholic Carlton Joseph Huntley Hayes. The first Tolerance Trio went out in the autumn of 1933, traveled 9,000 miles, visited 38 cities. The current trio is composed...
...toward truth, and distinction in service and achievement." Theta Phi's insignia: a gold key bearing Greek letters and three bars shaped and colored to represent the stripes on the sleeve of a doctor's academic robe. Its membership will be of two classes: students and older churchmen. First two institutions to get student chapters are Colgate-Rochester Divinity School (Rochester, N. Y.) and Southern...
...news is it when the American Civil Liberties Union or the editors of New Masses take the offensive against Tories. But the Manhattan group who flayed Mr. Hearst were no professional radicals. They were 50 churchmen from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut - members of the New York Methodist "area" headed by Bishop Francis John McConnell...
...city such a group of churchmen fraternize, lunch together, extend a friendly hand to a newcomer and, if he is a Protestant, welcome him into the local Federation of Churches. Lately a newcomer appeared in Detroit. But in all Christian charity many a Detroiter of the cloth found it hard to welcome him sincerely. He was Rev. John Franklyn Norris, loud Texas Baptist who reached fame eight years ago when he was indicted, tried and acquitted of murder. Last week it seemed likely that Baptist Norris would take a Detroit pulpit, settle there for good...
City fathers, bankers, businessmen, churchmen and miscellaneous bigwigs of Houston, Tex., gathered in Scottish Rite Cathedral for a solemn celebration of Jesse Holman Jones Day. In the audience, the big, genial chairman of Reconstruction Finance Corp. bowed his head, heard seven speakers eulogize him as a publicist, charitarian, politician, financier, "the most dominant and dynamic individual factor in the upbuilding and progress of our great city." Then a bronze bust was unveiled. Said Houstonman Jones: "I almost feel as if I have been listening to a funeral oration...