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...clerical collar, served churches in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Rome, Italy, was elected a Bishop in 1916. Since 1939 he served as resident Bishop of the Washington Area. A militant prohibitionist, he was once president of New York's Anti-Saloon League, was famed among Methodists for his forthright sermons, his uncompromising attitudes...
...These forthright words of General Somervell shocked the gathered businessmen. If General Somervell knew what he was talking about, war production was not even approaching the crest of the hump...
...Manhattan last week famed, forthright Physiologist Anton J. Carlson of the University of Chicago chairmaned a meeting aimed at overcoming this situation. The conferees were no sere cluster of drys: they were top-notch physiologists, psychiatrists, clergymen, social workers and representatives of Alcoholics Anonymous (organization of cured alcoholics), called together by the Research Council on Problems of Alcohol, a branch of the American Association for the Advancement of Science...
Pessimists about the present worth of the Church got a forthright answer last week. It came from tall, vigorous Dr. Henry Pitney Van Dusen of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. In a small but fact-crammed book called What IS the Church Doing? (Scribner; $1), he found the Church accomplishing great things under the Nazi heel, in missions and in church unity movements...
More members of our editorial staff seem to have picked up their newspaper experience on Eugene Meyer's forthright Washington Post than on any other newspaper. There are seven Post alumni among our editors and correspondents. One was City Editor, another Assistant Managing Editor...