Word: councill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Honor. In Norwalk, Conn., the city council, considering an increase in Mayor Irving Freese's $48-a-week salary, took note of the fact that he makes $2 less than the garbage collectors...
Junior class President Joan Anable '50 first brought the matter up at the Student Council meeting January 5--at which Miss Sherman was present. Several girls had suggested staging the dance at the Somerset and Miss Anable asked for the Council's reaction. Council referred the matter to the administration, adding that Student Government could in no way aid the classes, should a monetary loss be incurred...
...Luther Weigle was elected president of the Federal Council of Churches, which he shepherded through the first two years of the war. His biggest extracurricular job has been as chairman of the committee at work revising the Standard Version of the Bible. Since 1930, headquarters for this ambitious project by U.S. and British scholars have been at Yale. After his retirement, Chairman Weigle expects to devote his full time to the committee, which completed the New Testament in 1946 (TIME, Feb. 11, 1946), and hopes to finish...
...Sunday-school children have been taught by the methods advocated in his book, The Pupil and the Teacher, which has sold close to 1,000,000 copies. Since 1928, Dean Weigle has been chairman of the executive committee of the World's Sunday School Association (now the World Council of Christian Education). In this capacity he is still a vociferous opponent of the ban on teaching religion in the public schools. Says he: "When the public schools ignore religion, it conveys to our children the suggestion that religion is without truth or value...
After the war was over, Bishop Wurm, at 76, was elected chairman of the council of the provisional Evangelical Church in Germany. The task before him was to pick up the pieces that Hitler had scattered when he forced the break-up of Germany's Protestant federation in 1933. Into this task, Bishop Wurm threw all his talent for diplomatic maneuvering; he wrote letters and traveled from church to church to reconcile varying viewpoints. Finally, at a meeting in Eisenach last July, the aging bishop's labors were rewarded: the church delegates unanimously adopted the constitution...