Word: episcopalian
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...Episcopalian Dignity...
...last president of Harvard to take part in an exercise of the Harvard Divinity School was crusty Unitarian Charles William Eliot, in 1909. For this week's convocation of the Divinity School, Harvard's brand-new president, Episcopalian Nathan M. Pusey (TIME, June 8), composed a speech that would surely have made the muttonchops of the father of the Five-Foot Shelf bristle with shocked surprise...
...take care of their employees as well as themselves. They pioneered (1887) in profit sharing, and last year P. & G.'s employees got $8,000,000, or 8.7% of total company profits before taxes. Colonel William Cooper Procter, third-generation boss of P. & G. and a leading Episcopalian layman, had a still more modern idea. For years P. & G.'s production had fluctuated with the buying whims of wholesalers. If the wholesalers thought prices were heading higher, they loaded up; if prices seemed to be going down, they cut back sharply, and hundreds of P. & G. employees would...
...pecan rolls at an officers' club reception on the air base, Ike Eisenhower gave the sermon his endorsement, and told a little about his own taste in preaching: "Mamie and I were having an argument about what denomination the chaplain belonged to. Mamie thought he was an Episcopalian. I knew he wasn't a Presbyterian when he said 'trespasses' instead of 'debts' in the Lord's Prayer. But I knew he wasn't an Episcopalian. They are too darn dignified. I like to be enthusiastic...
...newcomers won Douglas' ear. They were an interesting pair. Farmer, 51, a well-to-do corporation lawyer, an Episcopalian and a Yaleman, gave up his legal practice about five years ago, devoted himself to the cause of world government, is suing the U.S. Government for recovery of two-thirds of his income tax because the two-thirds are used for war purposes. Marshall, 50, a Roman Catholic and equally a crusader, mostly for liberal causes (against restrictive racial covenants in real-estate deals, for Negroes in the Los Angeles Bar Association, etc.), is described by his wife...