Word: kirks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whom Abraham Lincoln called the smartest of the Confederate civil leaders is no more familiar to most U.S. readers than Felix Kirk Zollicoffer.* Yet Judah Philip Benjamin was one of the most astonishing figures in U.S. history. This week, 59 years after his death, he got a full-length biography...
Says Mary Lou: "I don't feel right all by myself. I need the band there to back me up." For no less than twelve years she had one of the best Negro bands back of her: Andy Kirk's Clouds of Joy. She was Kirk's pianist from New York's Famous Door and Cotton Club to Chicago's Grand Terrace, Kansas City's Lone Star and Los Angeles' Paramount theater. And while the band backed up Mary Lou, she backed up the band. She wrote most of its arrangements, and many...
...Moderator. The Duke, Taylor and Baillie each noted that this year marks the centennial of "The Great Disruption": each praised the Presbyterians who, in 1843, led 474 ministers and elders out of the old Church to found the Free Church, to retain the right of the kirk to choose her own ministers, appoint kirk sessions, synods and assemblies by the democratic right of election under common approval...
...nothing new for the Scots. They have thrived on religious rebellion from Knox's day down. While last century's revolt did not cause men to murder one another, as happened on earlier occasions, ministers who refused to help in the fight for a free and democratic kirk found themselves sometimes in awkward spots, including being hung by the heels under parish bridges...
...long as possible. He is an officer of the Luftwaffe, as is also Colonel General Alexander Lohr, who commands ground forces in the Balkans. As an air officer, his job will also be to try to effect an ending to the Tunisian campaign which is less bloody than Dun kirk, less shocking to Germans than the failure at Stalingrad...