Word: layman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Layman. High point of the convention's business was election of a new president. The choice was no surprise: Episcopal Layman Charles Phelps Taft, 49, son of William Howard Taft, 26th President of the U.S. (and Unitarian), brother of Republican Senator Robert A. Taft. A lawyer with a long record of service in public affairs, Charles Taft came to the Council presidency without the theological background characteristic of his 13 predecessors. Knowing delegates saw his election as presaging a new era of lay leadership and political activity for U.S. Protestantism. In his vigorous statement on taking office, Layman Taft...
Methodist Layman Mott is the grand old man of Protestant world unity, has been a leader in international religious movements since he helped organize the World's Student Christian Federation in 1895. In World War I he headed the Y.M.C.A.'s canteen and prisoner-of-war work. Last week, in retirement at Orlando, Fla., he was "mildly astonished." Scandinavia's left-wing newspapers were not only astonished but angry: they had hoped the prize would go to Madame Alexandra Kollontay, 74, ex-Soviet Ambassador to Stockholm, who helped arrange the 1944 peace between Russia and Finland...
...combined preaching and journalism for 25 years before he became a Republican Representative from New Jersey in 1925. ¶John Foster Dulles, 58, stoop-shouldered senior partner of Sullivan & Cromwell, one of the U.S.'s most puissant law firms, veteran of innumerable international congresses, No. 1 Presbyterian layman, and chairman of the Commission for a Just & Durable Peace of the Federal Council of Churches. ¶Adlai Ewing Stevenson, 46, able Illinois lawyer, grandson of Democratic Vice President Adlai ("The Headsman") Stevenson (who distinguished himself by discreetly purging some 40,000 Republican postmasters when Grover Cleveland became President). Young Stevenson...
Tonight's lecture, the first of two to be given this week, will be on the subject "The Strategy and Tactics of Science" and is expected to present a new plan for the development of an understanding of scientific progress by the layman which will strengthen the unity of democratic culture...
...David Gibson went to his bishop and said that he wanted to work among the poor. The bishop thanked him, noted that he was already carrying a heavy load, asked how much more time he could give. Said layman Gibson: "You don't understand me, sir. I am selling my business and want to give my whole time to the Lord Jesus...