Word: deacon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. William McKechnie, 78, one of baseball's most successful managers, who with a gentle schoolmasterliness that made him known as "the Deacon" won pennants over a 27-year career for the Pittsburgh Pirates (1925), the St. Louis Cardinals (1928) and the Cincinnati Reds (1939 and 1940) and a niche in the Hall of Fame as the only man to take three teams to the top; of pneumonia; in Bradenton...
When Shuttlesworth began reading the announcements during a Sunday service, Deacon Robert Pierce rose to declare that the trustees had called an open meeting to discuss Revelation's financial affairs. Shuttlesworth ruled him out of order, and 200 members of the congregation began chanting: "We want a meeting! We want a meeting!" The commotion lasted for nearly an hour, while the police stood by in case things got out of hand. Back came the cops again last Sunday, when Shuttlesworth got into another shouting match with the dissidents...
Against the Klan, some Negroes have formed the "Deacons for Defense and Justice"; its members, many of them troublemakers long before Bogalusa's civil rights crisis occurred, openly sport pistols and rifles. For months, Deacons have exchanged shots and punches with white roughnecks. In June night riders murdered one Negro deputy sheriff and seriously wounded another. Two weeks ago, a Deacon shot and critically wounded a white heckler during a civil rights demonstration...
...Church of the Holy Spirit in Salinas, Calif., one Sunday last month, Mrs. Phyllis Edwards, 48, walked to the altar to minister at 8 o'clock Holy Communion. Dressed in a deaconess' dark blue, nunlike robes surmounted by a deacon's stole, Mrs. Edwards calmly intoned the prayers and then distributed the bread and wine of Communion, which had been consecrated by the church's rector at a previous service...
...Public Health Service's Communicable Disease Center outside Atlanta, Dr. Wilbur Deacon is working with monkeys. Next year, if Congress approves an appropriation of $175,000 covering his work, Dr. Deacon hopes to test human and other spirochetes in chimpanzees. These animals are expensive, but they will bring Dr. Deacon closer to man than any other syphilis vaccine researcher...