Word: clergyman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...group of Princeton students, led by an enthusiastic young clergyman, invited a small number of Sarah Lawrence stu dents of similar tastes to join them for a weekend. They went to a ball game, tramped the countryside together and kept almost 'prom' hours in their eagerness to discuss current social and religious problems. ... I believe there is a future for the intercollegiate weekend for informal discussions...
Franklin D. Roosevelt has often been accused of misjudging the mind of the U. S. churches. Many a clergyman remembers Mr. Roosevelt's maladroit "How'm-I-doing?" letters to churchmen in 1935, plagiarized in part from a letter by Wisconsin's Philip Fox La Follette, and productive of an extraordinary number of blasts at the New Deal. And Protestants have latterly been irked by Mr. Roosevelt's preference for consulting Roman Catholic ecclesiastics...
...least one organization, the American Civil Liberties Union, of which he has been president for 20 years. A faction in the Union, which believes it should go on record against the violation of civil liberties in Russia, has been gunning for Dr. Ward. Another group this aging clergyman heads, the American League for Peace and Democracy, began to crack up after it declined to condemn Russian aggression against Finland. With meetings of both bodies scheduled for this week, Dr. Ward last week announced that he was resigning his posts in both...
...clergyman, grandson of a whaling sea captain, Van Bush went to Tufts, taught there, moved on to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he became vice president and dean of engineering...