Word: episcopalian
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Dorothy Day, 40, once an Episcopalian, was converted to Catholicism 13 years ago after having dabbled in Socialism as a writer on the New York Call, in Communism as an employe of the old Masses and the Liberator. For almost five years her colleague on the Catholic Worker has been Peter Maurin, 60, a genial, peasant-born Frenchman who, for the sake of his principles, gave up giving French lessons, became a laborer at a boys' camp. In 1932, reading two of Miss Day's articles in Catholic magazines, he discovered they spoke the same language, and hastened...
...Presbyterian Church (North), its Board of Christian Education intends to spend the next three years raising $10,000,000 for the endowment and running expenses of these 105 colleges and Presbyterian centres. Last week the Presbyterians announced that the first gift to their Sesquicentennial Fund came from an Episcopalian. Rt. Rev. Robert Lewis Paddock, retired bishop of Oregon, donated...
...managing editor's office a telephone rings. Editor Luce points out the peculiar significance of a resolution passed by an Episcopalian convention in Denver. The M. E. flips a switch on the dictograph before him and makes sure that the Religion editor has not missed the point. The telephone rings again. A TIME correspondent in Washington says that a new Supreme Court Justice is going to be appointed next day. It will be Casper Zinkowitz. The M. E. is unconvinced, but the correspondent insists, gives his sources, explains the details. "All right." Bang goes...
...workers in the U. S., 20,000 Liberians on African rubber plantations. Last year his company made $9,300,000. Besides Ford, his closest friend was the late great Thomas Alva Edison. A little man, shy, well-groomed, he raised horses, and dairy cows, was an active Episcopalian, left five sons and a daughter...
Last week Mrs. Vanderlip, widow of the Manhattan banker and a pillar of the Manhattan Swedenborgian church, presided at the Manhattan Swedenborg banquet to which President Roosevelt sent a praiseful telegram. In Boston, Swedenborgians dined in their Church of the New7 Jerusalem on Beacon Hill. In Philadelphia, Episcopalian Joseph Fort Newton spoke at a Swedenborg gathering in the University Club, while in nearby suburban Bryn Athyn, Swedenborgians of the schismatic General Church of the New Jerusalem held a dinner in the assembly hall of their slowly-building cathedral. These Swedenborgians have a bishop-George de Charms-whereas the main body...