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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In Washington. D.C., where many talk but few listen, spare, sharp-profiled Rev. A. (for Arthur) Powell Davies, 44, is a man who is heard. Every Sunday his congregation* at the chaste, red brick, All Souls' Unitarian Church overflows from the church auditorium into adjacent halls and recreation rooms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Unrepentant Liberal | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

Pulpit Rebel. Davies, who calls himself a "theological radical," is under constant attack by both right & left. Reason: he openly rebels against any political or clerical form which he believes is fundamentally empty. He regards the Apostles' Creed as inadequate. Says he: "The Creed goes: '. . . Born of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Unrepentant Liberal | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

Born in Birkenhead, England, Powell Davies spent a robust youth on his father's farm (he rode a bull calf at the age of two, wore out five motorcycles). He almost went into British politics, finally decided that "the crucial field was an honest, believable religion," was graduated from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Unrepentant Liberal | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

National Chairman Bob Hannegan, in & out of the White House all week long, turned up once with a whole swarm of 21 freshman Democratic candidates. Former Ambassador to Russia Joe Davies dropped by, announced that he was bullish on Democratic prospects.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Silver Lining | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

To help him tackle the great issue of "peace or war, freedom or tyranny, life or death," Streit has gathered an impressive array of aides, for most of whom the new monthly is a labor of love. His contributing editors: Owen J. Roberts, former U.S. Supreme Court justice; Russell W...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Streit & Straight | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

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