Word: matthew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Matthew Parker was a pious, scholarly divine who took unto himself a spouse in 1547, when it was still illegal for clergymen of the Church of England to marry.* In 1560, as Queen Elizabeth's Archbishop of Canterbury, Matthew Parker was set to draw up a list of marriage prohibitions. The resultant Table of Kindred and Affinity, Wherein Whosoever Are Related are Forbidden in Scripture and Our Laws to Marry Together stands prominently in every Anglican church in England to this...
...large number of new Quakers should presently appear before the draft boards, lifelong Quakers might be refused the noncombatant duties which most were permitted in World War I. Good illustration of Quaker methods is the American Friends Service Committee, of which pink-cheeked, cricket-playing Philosopher Rufus Matthew Jones, 77, is chairman, and bucktoothed, towheaded Clarence Evan Pickett executive secretary. Organized in 1917 to clear up what mess it could in World War I's wake, the Committee raised and spent $25,000,000 in its first decade to care for Europe's needy. Without neglecting its work...
...Father of Matthew Arnold, who does not appear in the picture...
...addition, Medical School scholarships totaling $1,300, for study next academic year, were awarded as follows: Matthew and Mary E. Bartlett scholarship to James P. Dixon, Jr., of Yellow Springs, Ohio; S.B. Antioch '39. Abraham A. Watson scholarship to Lytt I. Gardner, of Reidsville, N.C.; A.M. University of North Carolina '40. Isaac Sweetzer scholarship to Frank E. Trobaugh, Jr., of West Frankfort, Ill.; A.B. University of Illinois...
...Yale, 1,486 students signed a petition to President Roosevelt demanding that the U. S. send no supplies, money or men to Europe, were roundly denounced for "muddled thinking" by Professor Arnold Whitridge, grandson of Matthew Arnold. Said he: "If we wish to stay out of war . . . we should do everything possible to furnish such aid to the Allies as will enable them...