Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Should We Teach Religion in the Public Schools" will be answered on Feb. 2 at the Forum by several Harvard educators and clergymen, including Ben-Zion Gold, the director of Hillel at Harvard-Radcliffe, and John Mansfield, a professor at Harvard...
...Carter blacks charged that the episode was a campaign ploy. There was no evidence of that, though Ford's campaign committee sent telegrams about the incident to 400 black clergymen. But King has a reputation for antics. When he ran for the Albany city council, he distributed a poster showing him sticking out his tongue and waving his fingers near his ears. The caption: "You've tried everything else. Now try a crazy nigger." His brother C.B. King, an attorney, assured a Carter rally that Clennon was "emotionally and mentally disturbed...
...that Steiger had "scandals and skeletons" in his closet, Conlan preached a hard-nosed gospel of "getting all Godfearing people to come out of the pews and go to the polls to stop the moral decay that is eroding our country." Supporters of Conlan wrote letters asking some 800 clergymen to persuade church members to vote for him because "it sure would be nice to have a man with a clear testimony for Jesus Christ representing Arizona and America." Steiger called his opponent a "total plastic politician" and a "dangerous man" who had been "bought and paid...
...sooner had Jimmy Carter announced his vice-presidential choice than he and Fritz Mondale met with 90 black clergymen in New York. Georgia Congressman Andrew Young, 44, an ordained Congregationalist minister, told the group that it was no accident that Carter is in tune with blacks. Announced Young: "By the grace of God, Jimmy's next-door neighbor was a black bishop." Responded the ministers: "Amen!" Continued Young: "From the early days of his life, he had to watch that bishop drive his long black Packard by his house." "Amen." "His father and the bishop used to have prayer...
...William Stoughton (A.B. 1650), whose bloodthirstiness led him, when Governor Phips eventually ordered a halt, to try to hurry three more people up the hangman's steps. Allied with him was Judge Samuel Sewall (A.B. 1671), who five years later publicly confessed his error. Among the witch-hunting clergymen the most active was John Hale...