Word: clergyman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rich Emily subsidized a Home for destitute girls. Mr. Condon, the Episcopalian clergyman who ran the Home, came to get another $10,000. "The little I have will go to Margaret when I am gone," said Emily, stroking Margaret's hand. But a few days later Emily went to see Roger Sherman's stamp collection. He whispered: "Dear Emily, I think of you as a lily, swaying on its stem. . . . Let me be your knight. . . . We shall seek for ... truth, together." "What if we don't find it?" asked Emily gloomily. But Roger knew she had accepted...
During World War I, when she was subbing as the editor for her husband, a Quitman clergyman used his churchly influence to wheedle a local grocer out of more than his Hooverized share of flour. The news leaked, and Quitman's food administrator cracked down on the parson. The scandal rocked the town. A Quitman banker, chief elder of the church, ordered Miss Edna to write an editorial denouncing the food administrator. She laughed him out of her office. Next day came word that the bank was going to foreclose a loan on the Free Press. When this news...
...government. Premier Tommy Douglas' twelve-man Cabinet was long on party loyalty and enthusiasm, naturally short on administrative experience. The Cabinet's strongest point: it was thoroughly typical of the rural, grain-growing people who had put the C.C.F. in provincial power. Among the members were one clergyman (Douglas), five farmers, three schoolteachers, one expert on farm cooperatives, a railway man, a lawyer. Three of Douglas' principal advisers...
They have heard one of the most ringing affirmations of Christian faith yet uttered by any U.S. Protestant clergyman in World...
Died. Harold Bell Wright, 72, master of the simple, sentimental, best-selling novel; in La Jolla, Calif. Farm hand, hobo, artist, house painter, lastly preacher, Wright began his writing career in 1899 after a rival clergyman convinced him that his sermons should be published, shortly turned his talents to sugaring the moralistic pill with mystery, intrigue, romance. For 21 novels (15 movies), his manly men and womanly women fought cleanly, loved truly against a backdrop of raptly described scenic grandeur. The two most famed novels: The Shepherd of the Hills (1907), 1,250,000 copies; The Winning of Barbara Worth...