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Since 1919, he has elected five Governors. The last one was the incumbent, A. Harry Moore. Moore's Republican rival in 1937, Clergyman Lester H. Clee, carried 15 of Jersey's 21 counties. But when Hudson's poll was reported, Hague's Moore was found to have won by 45,266 votes. In vain did Pastor Clee charge that the Hudson vote was fraudulent. Ballot boxes were straightway locked up, Hague-controlled election officials and judges refused to let anybody get near them, and Pastor Clee went back to his church. Many an unproved charge...
That is Bishop Lawrence speaking--the respected and loved, humane and long-serving Bishop Lawrence, First Citizen of Massachusetts. And this is 1940.... Shut your eyes and listen to his words once more. It is 1917, and another clergyman, Bishop Williams, speaks. The War, he avers, is engendering a new idealism in the Allies, in comparison to which America's moral apathy and materialistic sluggishness are disgraceful. The citizens of France and England "are no longer living for the things men usually live for among the commonplaces of peace... They are living, toiling, serving, sacrificing and dying for country, humanity...
...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...