Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...send some observers to South Viet Nam to witness the election process at firsthand. More than willing, Johnson announced at midweek that 20 Americans had been invited to go. The group includes six Senators and Governors, plus an assortment of mayors, labor and civil rights leaders, businessmen and clergymen. The harshest critic of Johnson's policies in Viet Nam-Arkansas' Senator J. William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee-politely declined the invitation...
...from Philadelphia and Newark who were professional manipulators." In turn, TV interviewed the newcomers as if they were experts on Plainfield. A Negro identified by NBC as the pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church claimed that the police were prolonging the riots in order to beat more Negroes. Plainfield clergymen complained to NBC that the man was a recent arrival in the city who was merely assisting in Bible study at Shiloh...
Journalists, clergymen and social workers had said some of the same things before, but never under the federal imprimatur. In the circumstances, the conclusions were shattering. Said the report: "The evidence-not final, but powerfully persuasive-is that the Negro family in the urban ghettos is crumbling. For vast numbers, the fabric of conventional social relationships has all but disintegrated...
...whom are in the low and moderate income group. Many families have lived in their homes for many years. Their lives are built in significant ways on their relationships with relatives and friends living nearby, often on the same block, even in the same multiunit house, with churches and clergymen in the neighborhood, with schools and teachers, and with shopkeepers whom they know and trust and with whom they like to trade and talk...
...median salary of $6,000 a year, the nation's 10,000 Episcopal clergymen are poor in pocket-and a lot more. After an 18-month study of Episcopal training, a committee chaired by Harvard President Nathan M. Pusey last week reported that a third of Episcopal clergymen lack a complete three-year seminary education. More than 60% of Episcopal seminarians graduated from college with average grades of C or below. Of all Episcopal clergymen, more than 12% never graduated from college at all. Worse, said Pusey, seminary training itself is "dated" and often irrelevant to the church...