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...able public speaker, she has taken part in national, state and local movements to sell bonds, encourage youth, preserve historical records, promote the arts, combat Communism, foster child welfare, etc. The roster of her activities takes 27 lines in Who's Who. Among other things, she is a Congregationalist, Republican, special correspondent of the Hammond (Ind.) Times, member of the League of Women Voters, the Order of the Eastern Star and the American Legion Women's Auxiliary. Her husband, who says he "glories in Mildred's achievements," has a busy record in civic affairs, too: he served...
Compared to its more pompous sisters, Bennington is still in diapers. It was founded in 1923 by a Congregationalist minister, with the support of a large group of townsmen. Also helping were the president of Radcliffe, Smith, and Columbia. As one of the countless college catalogues claims, "enthusiasm grew by leaps and bounds." This statement is verified by the fact that when Bennington started classes in 1932 during the blackest depths of the depression, fund-raising was a job fit only for blackmailers...
Last week in Minneapolis, 16 prominent Congregationalist laymen (including Congressman Walter H. Judd, Scientist Robert A. Millikan) formed a committee to "oppose Congregational political action." The council, charged Committeeman Frank A. Bean, a Minneapolis executive, "violates the principles of Congregationalism and the concepts of the Constitution of the United States. We believe its approach to social, economic and political problems is basically materialistic and immoral...
Answered the council's chairman, Dean Liston Pope of the Yale Divinity School: "The council is vigorously anti-Communist and anti-Marxist." This seemed true, though the council's outlook has run considerably leftward of the average Congregationalist. But it was only a glancing rebuttal. What roused the laymen's committee most was the fear that the Council for Social Action is subjecting Congregationalists to a centralized program of policymaking that contradicts the historic individualism of their church...
...modern times, millions of men & women of Jewish origin have renounced Judaism as their spiritual country. Such men & women think (or say they think) that the word "Jew" should be on a par with "Baptist," "Congregationalist" or "Catholic"-and should apply only to the Jews who have elected to be, or to remain, Jews. Rabbi Finkelstein's Torah teaches him that the covenant God made with Israel is an inescapable covenant. "The choosing by God," says he, "was like Selective Service." It is binding on all Jews, to the last generation on earth...