Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spanish Fascists by crying: "How long, Mr. Roosevelt, do you intend to affront the voters of America by retaining as one of your Presidential electors ... a man who rendered financial aid to Communists in Spain so that they might continue to horrify the civilized world with their murders of clergymen and their pillaging of churches...
...begins in a matter-of-fact way with a dry, ironic account of the christening of the hero, Ben, born into a family of clergymen. The ceremony is marred when a poor, ugly, distant relative called Miserable Sarah breaks in on the good-hearted soft-headed assemblage with words of cruel wisdom. Groaning heavily, she tells Ben that he has a thin skin "and a thin skin is easy scratched and easy tickled...Play the fool when you come to something you don't understand...If you must play games, choose the one you're good...
Like many another Midwestern school, Kenyon College at tiny Gambier, Ohio was built by one of the many Eastern clergymen who swarmed into the Western territories after the War of 1812. Since then Kenyon has passed two stiff tests. First was to face down the animosity of its Ohio neighbors who, learning that Founder-Bishop Philander Chase had raised his first $30,000 from the British nobility, firmly believed that Kenyon was a British fort. That notion Kenyon scouted by graduating many a stanch U. S. citizen, including two members of the Lincoln Cabinet, Secretary of War Edwin McMasters Stanton...
...farm in Passyunk Township, three miles southwest of the city. Solid burghers, however, recognized him as the man who paid one-tenth of Philadelphia's real estate taxes, who had in 1814 subscribed to 95% of the U. S. Government's unpopular $5,000,000 war loan. Clergymen were painfully aware that he read the French rationalists, owned 18 ships bearing such names as Voltaire, Rousseau, Montesquieu, Helvetius. One morning in 1830, when he was 80 and half blind, he came in from the country with his eggs, was knocked down by a wagon. Year later he died...
...Clergymen, with 265 out of 543 graduates, led. Governors, councillors, judges, and deputies straggled along with 67, while 35 graduates developed into physicians. 18 became dirt farmers, closely pursued by 17 teachers. Ten soldiers and sailors did Harvard's part in national defense...