Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Explaining the purpose of the talks the Reverend Frederic B. Kellogg, who will manage them, said; "A considerable number of undergraduates have expressed a desire to discerns questions of religion informally with visiting clergymen and so if has been suggested that meetings be held from time to time in the common terms of the various college houses. Men of all denominations will speak and all members of the University are welcome...
Leaders of the local defense leagues are spunky housewives, energetic Communists, clergymen with social consciences like Father Groser. Fortnight ago on the 100th anniversary of the great working class Chartist Convention that scared early Victorians silly by demanding such reforms as universal suffrage and annual Parliaments, representatives of the 200,000 members of the booming Federation of Tenants' and Residents' Associations met for its first national convention. Birmingham, scene of a recent victorious strike by 46,000 families living in a municipal tenements, was the convention city...
Last week the Christian Herald decided that, among rural clergymen in the U. S., Middletown's George Gilbert had most to tell about his life. Harper & Brothers, when their Horse and Buggy Doctor was a success last winter, had asked the Christian Herald to discover a parson as kindly and old-fashioned as best-selling Dr. Arthur Emanuel Hertzler. The Protestant monthly (most successful in the U. S.) opened a $250 contest for 500-word descriptions of rural parsons, received 1,000 entries. Paron Gilbert will write, Christian Herald will print serially, and Harpers will publish in toto next...
...Lloyd: "Sure, the ministers do that all the time. And there are always ten or fifteen men who raise their hands or rise. I don't know whether they really mean it or not." What Warden Lloyd did know, however, was that a prison rule forbade clergymen to talk publicly about such matters. When Baptist Thweatt's story got in the press last week, the Warden had his name stricken from the list of ministers eligible for service at the prison...
...Slough known as The White Elephant, he headed the workers' ironbound union. The Government dared not fire him for fear of arousing his followers. Solution: they sacked the whole kit & boodle-7,800 workingmen-just to get rid of Wal. Whereupon Wal dressed them all up as clergymen in surplices and paraded them through the grounds before a huge white cloth elephant, which they pompously mourned as dead...