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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Healthiest Communities | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

...Evanston Reveres published a pamphlet crying up the fact that Dr. Tittle is a member of the American Civil Liberties Union. The Union, said the Reveres, gets money from Communists. Communism and Atheism are the same thing, and "a preacher speaking the word of God in a House of God should not be a member of an atheistic society." The pamphlet also flayed Dr. Tittle for letting young Negroes mingle with young whites at a church party. And at the "Reverend Sirs" of Evanston the Reveres leveled three questions which seemed aimed chiefly at Dr. Tittle: "Would you be good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Reveres v. Reverends | 3/27/1933 | See Source »

Heresy-hunting and clergy-baiting usually dwindle into dull squabbles. Evanston's brought an unpredicted turn. The lay members of First Methodist Church, among them President Fred Wesley Sargent of Chicago & North Western Railway Co., backed up their Dr. Tittle, issued a manifesto: "We stand for a free pulpit and a free church. . . . We vigorously resent the effort of outside organizations to dictate to the Church or to prescribe its message...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Reveres v. Reverends | 3/27/1933 | See Source »

...Evanston clergy held their peace, save for Rev. R. Lester Mondale of First Unitarian Church who took Dr. Tittle's side. Chided the Christian Century in nearby Chicago: "If the ministers of Evanston-or of the other communities in which similar pieces of browbeating will undoubtedly be attempted-knuckle under to an implied threat of this sort, they will deserve nothing but the moral and intellectual slavery into which they will deliver themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Reveres v. Reverends | 3/27/1933 | See Source »

...Evanston, Ill., when the last of five extortion letters directed Mrs. James A. Patten, 75, relict of Chicago's wheat tycoon, to walk at night down the street with $50,000, a policewoman set out from the Patten house at the specified time disguised as Mrs. Patten, carrying a dummy packet and a revolver. Detectives caught one Axel Peterson, 52, onetime well-to-do landscape gardener employed by Charles Gates Dawes, Chicago Utilitarian Rufus Cutler Dawes and Northwestern University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 27, 1933 | 3/27/1933 | See Source »

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