Word: clergyman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story: a well-loved clergyman (Wyrley Birch) is shot through the head on a village street. There are no known motives, no clues, and it looks like an impossible case to crack. But someone must be tried and convicted, quick. Elections are near, and through their newspapers the political outs belabor the reform administration. Among innumerable stumblebums, the police dragnet at length yields a young veteran (Arthur Kennedy). There is a horrifying amount of evidence against him; worn down by third-degree treatment, he signs a confession. It is a perfect case, and State's Attorney Henry Harvey (Dana...
...business and his God. When he got back to Bristol, R.I., William H. Smith went to his boss (who is also his brother) and said: "Business is rather a selfish institution. What can we do that is unselfish?" He had an answer ready for his own question: hire a clergyman, at company expense, to further Christianity in New England...
Parson Button, 46, is a forthright, husky man who looks more like a vice president than a clergyman. As he sees it, his first duty-"or, rather, privilege"-will probably be helping out small, impoverished New England churches of all denominations. The good Baptist Smith brothers explain the anomalous Button job thus: "We spend lots of time trying to figure out ways of helping the community and the state. We are employing an efficiency expert in religion just the same as we'd employ any other efficiency expert. We don't expect to sell, any more shoes because...
...most hopeful fact about Mr. Taft by all odds is that he is not a clergyman. Therein, I think, is his unique and prophetic opportunity...
...broad churchman like Bishop Sherrill, 58-year-old Norman Nash, son of an Episcopal clergyman, was graduated from Harvard and Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge (Mass.). He studied at Cambridge (England), and was ordained in time to serve as a chaplain in World War I. After the war he returned to Episcopal Theological School, where for 19 years he taught New Testament and Christian social ethics, built a reputation for encyclopedic knowledge and crisp, closely reasoned lectures...