Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week a militant group of U.S. clergymen and laymen met in Washington and set out to raise $1,000,000 "to resist the declared purposes of the Roman Catholic Church further to breach the wall of separation between church and state...
...Manhattan's Park Avenue has held an annual series of nondenominational vesper services. At the first of this year's services, held in the Episcopal St. James' Church, the Rev. Laurance I. Neale of the Unitarian Church of All Souls was one of the officiating clergymen. To one Protestant prelate this was carrying Protestant unity a little too far. Last week, retired Episcopal Bishop William T. Manning, 82, took sharp note of it in a letter to two New York newspapers...
...Clergymen at Reno, Nev. (which had 24,354 marriages as compared to 6,464 divorce actions last year) adopted a new code of ethics: "No minister should commercialize the performance of weddings by making deals with taxi drivers, courthouse employees, or any other individuals who may act as solicitors...
...victim rose out of the scuppers to become the pirate's relentless pursuer. Aimed now directly at the juvenile market, boys' magazines arose for every class, their authors ranging from Talbot Baines Reed, G. A. Henty and P. G. Wodehouse to a lesser-known host of "clergymen, headmasters, baronets, officers . . . titled ladies...
...relieves children from parents who keep them too long out of their estates; 3. It relieves Physicians of incurable patients ... 5. It relieves the world of old men who keep the minds of men in chains to old prejudices. These men do not die half fast enough. Few Clergymen, Physicians, or Lawyers beyond 60 do any good to the world." When death came for Dr. Rush...