Word: congregationalist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...delegates mildly condemned President Roosevelt's appointment of Myron C. Taylor as his personal ambassador to the Vatican, pledged aid to war refugees, agreed that Congregationalist ministers' salaries (average: $1,640) are too low. Between sessions, they made earnest "trips of social exploration" through San Francisco's Japanese and Chinese section, toured migrant camps (said the prospectus: "Delegates to watch under bridges and beside roads for migrants, and show friendly spirit and talk to them...
...laymen led the field in the election for moderator: a stanch New Dealer, 71-year-old ex-Governor William E. Sweet of Colorado, and a 35-year-old Maine Republican, Ronald Bridges, brother of New Hampshire's Senator H. Styles Bridges. Sweet won by 16 votes. Slight, precise Congregationalist Sweet retired from a thriving brokerage business in Denver in 1920, "to give my full time to politics and religion," believes in the "application of the Christian religion to social and economic life...
...sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism when the wolf is of a different opinion." ∧ San Francisco clergymen held their fire until after Mother's Day, then let fly a volley. "If we don't fight now, we'll have to fight alone," prophesied Congregationalist Dr. Jason Noble Pierce, chaplain in World War 1. Publicity wise Methodist Julian C. McPheeters told his big, enthusiastic congregation: "I regard their [the pacifists'] position as both unscriptural and dangerous to the future safety of America. . . ." Well-beloved, 72-year-old Episcopal Bishop Edward Lambe Parsons declared...
Dillard was created by a merger of two impoverished old New Orleans schools, Congregationalist Straight College and Methodist Episcopal New Orleans University. The two church boards, the Julius Rosenwald Fund, the Rockefeller General Education Board and leading New Orleans citizens, including Rosenwald Son-in-Law Edgar B. Stern, pledged $2,000,000 to build the new university, opened it in 1935. It was named for an old Virginia blue blood, Dr. James Hardy Dillard, who for 24 years had devoted himself to improving the South's Negro country schools...
...Denver Congregationalist minister, Edwin McArthur left a job as runner in a Denver bank to go to Manhattan, where the Juilliard Foundation had given him a scholarship to study the piano. To pay his living expenses he played accompaniments in Manhattan vocal studios. Because he was such a good accompanist, famous singers like Richard Crooks, Merle Alcock, Gladys Swarthout, John Charles Thomas hired him for concerts. Says he: "If I couldn't be a musician and a respectable citizen - by that I mean earn my own living - at the same time, I'd give up music...