Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like corrupt clergymen filthy from their holes...
Protestant clergymen openly joined in the attack. New York Baptist Minister John Roach Straton, a leader of the nationwide Fundamentalist movement, denounced Smith as "the deadliest foe in America today of the forces of moral progress." Virginia's Methodist Bishop James Cannon Jr. thundered at Smith in sermons and pamphlets, organized a South-wide movement of drys dedicated to his defeat. Moderator Hugh K. Walker of the Presbyterian General Assembly called upon all Protestant churchmen to "fight to the bitter end the election of Alfred E. Smith...
Most U.S. clergymen jump at an invitation to deliver the invocation or benediction at a major party's state political convention. But last week, in search of a Roman Catholic priest to share religious honors at the Republican convention late this month, Maine's Republican leaders tried seven priests, got seven turndowns. Both church and state knew why: at the legislature's special session in January, the G.O.P. majority in both houses defeated a drive by the Democratic minority to change the state school law, allow local communities the option of providing public-school bus service...
Professor Koch's overly blunt biology lesson brought some letters of approval, but also the expected deluge of outraged protests from parents, alumni and clergymen. Last week he was fired. Said President David Dodd Henry: "The views expressed are offensive and repugnant, contrary to commonly accepted standards of morality, and their public espousal may be interpreted as encouragement of immoral behavior...
...lunch counter previously reserved for whites only. "I feel funny," she said, "but it's nice of them to serve us." San Antonio (pop. 575,000) had responded to appeals from its Negro population (9%) for lunch-counter equality after several meetings of white and Negro clergymen, businessmen and store managers. Opened to Negroes without incident were lunch counters in seven variety and 23 drugstores. Also, six Negro students from Fisk University were served at Nashville's Greyhound bus terminal restaurant where, only two weeks before, 56 students had been arrested for refusing to leave while police searched...