Word: discussions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While merger meetings were being held throughout the land, representatives of six churches (Baptist, Protestant Episcopal, Methodist Episcopal, South, Society of Friends, Lutheran. Presbyterian) convened at Washington to discuss the report on Christian unity prepared in 1927 by the International Conference on Faith & Order at Lausanne, Switzerland. Next week, 100 nationally prominent laymen and clergy will meet at Buck Hill Falls, Pa., to discuss: "Next steps toward a united church." Last week's meetings...
India, Too. At Lucknow was held a conference, the first in Northern India's church history, to discuss the fusion of the United Church of Northern India, Methodist Episcopal Church, English Baptist Church, Disciples of Christ (American and Australian), Church of Brethren and Wesleyan Methodist Church. "Informal and unofficial" representatives of the Anglican Church were present...
Then came two famed southerners, Principal Robert Russa Moton of Tuskegee Institute (Negroes) and Bishop James Cannon Jr., of the Methodist-Episcopal Church South. Bishop Cannon was asked to stay for a meal, discuss prohibition...
...Happy Valley, Tenn., where a strike of some 5,000 textile workers in the Bemberg & Glantzoff artificial silk mills at Elizabethton had dragged its way through six unhappy weeks (TIME, May 27). The strike ended when President Arthur Mothwurf of the mills agreed to take back striking workers, discuss their grievances, appoint a new personnel director. Peacemaker: Miss Anna Weinstock, 28, conciliator from the U. S. Department of Labor...
Romantic reporters who discuss the Van Sweringen Rail Empire also discuss the Van Sweringens as Rail Emperors. On such a basis, however, able John J. Bernet should certainly be listed as at least No. 1 Field Marshal. For though the Van Sweringens may handle the stocks and bonds, it is Mr. Bernet who has most to do with making the engines go and the cars follow them. In 1916 he took the Nickel Plate, commonly known as "a streak of rust," and quickly made it a sound and paying railway. In 1927 he was transferred to the Erie...