Word: knubel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. The Rev. Dr. Frederick H. Knubel, 75, longtime (13 successive terms) president of the United Lutheran Church in America, founder and pastor of Manhattan's Church of the Atonement, vice president of the Lutheran World Convention, eloquent champion of unity among disputatious U.S. Lutheran groups; after long illness; in New Rochelle...
Jammed into the ballroom of Omaha's Hotel Fontenelle, the United Lutherans re-elected their perennial president (he has held the job since the church was organized in 1918): precise, white-goateed Dr. Frederick Hermann Knubel, 70, of Manhattan. Dr. Knubel admitted he could swallow the articles of agreement only by "gulping." The United Lutherans, who think some parts of the Scripture more important than others, had to swallow hard too. But under Dr. Knubel's brisk leadership and spurred by their desire for unity, gulp them the United Lutherans...