Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cable Cars Free. Barton had other ways of stretching his income. Like most other 19th century clergymen, he could travel free on the railroads while on church business and got reduced rates at hotels. Many communities developed their own local way of helping out the men, and the women, of the cloth. San Francisco, grateful for the heroic acts of the Roman Catholic Sisters of Charity during the 1906 earthquake, decided that they could forever ride free on the cable cars-and they do to this day. For that matter, the none-too-numerous clergymen who still take trains travel...
Obviously, whether debt is moral or immoral depends on its use. It can be highly moral when it implies trust between man and man and a civilized respect for contracts. Some clergymen are a bit embarrassed that in a national rating of 42 types of credit risks, the clergy ranked a mediocre 17th (best risks are business executives, worst are farm laborers). Union Theological Seminary's Professor Roger Shinn says that the key to the moral issue is whether credit enhances or restricts personal freedom. "Debt is wrong if it overburdens and blocks a person and destroys his freedom...
...other honorary degrees this year will fall, as usual, into six categories: Germans, English women, clergymen, dying professors, distinguished Negroes, and others...
Scarcely said than done. Dozens of clergymen who had made the march responded with outraged denials. Reporters who covered the event from beginning to end called the Dickinson report patent nonsense. While there was bound to be some hanky-panky, especially among some of the unwashed youngsters who joined the march for kicks, there was no evidence of open misconduct; certainly there were no arrests, even by the police officials who signed the affidavits. Said United Press International Photographer Phil Sandlin: "I spent five days and nights on the march. None of those things ever happened...
Despite the broadening of its program, SCLC will probably remain divided on many ideological issues from groups like SNCC and CORE. Because of its own composition, for example, (a large number of the present staff are ministers) SCLC relies heavily on local clergymen as leaders, even though it recognizes that they may be conservative and may slow down their more radical followers...