Word: glenns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...solid citizens, a few to win renown. Most widely famed is Footballer Harold ("Red"') Grange. But Sculptor Lorado Taft is an alumnus, and so are Litterateurs Carl and Mark Van Doren, Motormaker Ray Austin Graham, Sanitary Engineer Arthur Newell Talbot, onetime (1928-32) U. S. Senator Otis Ferguson Glenn, Massachusetts Institute of Technology's onetime (1923-31) President Samuel Wesley Stratton. The late great Stuart Pratt Sherman taught English at Illinois for 17 years...
...Reverend Leslie Glenn, minister of Christ Church, Cambridge, spoke brilliantly and courageously in the Episcopal National Council last week. The money collected for missionary work by the Episcopal Churches of America had been the subject of an investigation prompted by the million dollar deficit. It was found that only four cents to the dollar was actually given out among the missionaries. Whatever one may feel of the efficacy of missionary work by any sect, this practice was plain larceny, the raising of money under false pretenses. It appears that church-men have been cognizant of the matter for a long...
...Glenn called this pilfering of the church's war chest . . . . "stealing, misappropriation, embezzlement . . ." powerful words before a convention of prelates. His capably expressed indignation deserves praise from the whole body of the laity, not only for the justice of it, but for its vigor and motivation. Such outspoken men are few enough in the ranks of the clergy, and it is an encouraging sign of the age to discover a minister as strong in action as he is from the pulpit...
Well aware of these practices, Episcopal churchmen have mostly maintained a discreet silence. One who spoke out bitterly last week was 33-year-old Rev. C. Leslie ("Les") Glenn of famed old Christ Church, Cambridge, son-in-law of wealthy Harper Sibley, who sits on the potent Episcopal National Council. Cried Rector Glenn...
Zion City is run by Overseer Wilbur Glenn ("The World Is Flat") Voliva of the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church. When he heard what the Christian Assembly Church, a schismatic upstart, was up to he became choleric, told his followers: "It's a publicity stunt. That church is a monkey house.'' Overseer Voliva sent his chief of police around but all that official could do was to have the loudspeakers shut off at night...