Word: churchmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...concepts matched the echo of marital concepts preached by neglected Benjamin Barr Lindsey, one-time Judge of Denver's Juvenile Court. Long has peppery, little Judge Lindsey trooped up & down the country with a marital Utopia under his arm and at the end of his tongue, wrangling with churchmen and standpatters, touching off a conflagration of protest. One of Judge Lindsey's pet anathemas has been what he calls "bootleg divorce," i. e. divorce by amicable agreement but fixed up to look as though one party had been wronged by the other, to conform...
...York division of the Methodist Church urging government ownership of natural resources, railroads, banks, steel, cotton and woolen mills. Said the report: "We must of necessity face frankly the fact that Capitalism is un-Christian and unethical, and then consider ways and means of replacing it." To this end, churchmen, were urged to take up politics...
...sloganed: "Where there's a Will, there's a way." Under the chairmanship of Dr. Alfred Williams Anthony, the findings were published, titled ''More and Better Wills." It was reported that 70% of estates administered in court are will-less. Churchmen and charity workers were urged, "guided by good taste and feeling," to make calls, write letters, get publicity, form committees, talk by radio on will-making, with a view to getting benefactions in water-tight form...
...Methodists. Episcopalians have never since stopped talking about it, arguing it, quoting canon law and rubric. Last week the talk was for the first time public, at an annual Church Congress in Evanston. Ill.-an unofficial, argumentative gathering which lays down no laws but permits high, low and broad churchmen to air their views. Bishop Scarlett defended his intercommunion service, pointing out that Jesus Christ was no sectarian. Leader of the opposing side was another Episcopal Johnson-Colorado's popular, high-church Bishop Irving Peake Johnson, called ''The Tame Lion." Bishop Johnson growled about jellyfish and other...
Three weeks ago Long Island churchmen obtained Col. Todd's permission to hold Long Island's first Easter dawn service on a wide clearing in the hills of "The Priory." They arranged for four trumpeters to blow sweetly at dawn's arrival, a chorus of 200 to sing "The Messiah" clergymen from Huntington, Brooklyn and Manhattan to speak. Congregations would come by the busload. The Long Island R. R. would put on a "Sunrise Special." After the service, worshippers would file through Col. Todd's studio to behold his blond Christ...