Word: melish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Bradford Young arrived in Brooklyn, resumed his old post at Holy Trinity Church. His superior, Rev. Dr. John Howard Melish, welcomed him genially: "I think of him as my son. Speaking for myself, I am delighted that the San Francisco church doesn't want him." In San Francisco the real loser in the battle, Bishop Parsons, mounted the pulpit of rectorless Trinity Church, spoke mystically. Said he: "He brought a fine Christian spirit to a very difficult situation in San Francisco. At my invitation he came, he saw and-in a deep sense-he conquered...
Last year under the leadership of W. H. Melish '31, president of the Socialist Club, a fortnightly publication called The Socialist was printed, to which contributions were made by several Socialist leaders, and by other college liberal organizations. Activities, however, will be suspended this winter, but it is hoped that another year will see its reorganization...
Deputy Rev. John Howard Melish of Brooklyn who helped write the report pointed out that many of its recommendations were quoted from or based on statements of Gerard Swope, Owen D. Young and Supreme Court Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis. Nevertheless, upon Deputy Wickersham's complaint the House of Deputies deleted the House of Bishops' recommendation ("representing the mind of the Church"), said merely that the report was "given careful consideration...
...Melish '31, former president of the Harvard Socialist Club, will appear before the U. S. Senate this morning to argue for a bill prohibiting compulsory military training in American schools and colleges, it was announced last night by officers of the Club. The League for industrial Democracy, of which the Harvard Socialist Club is an affiliated branch, is sponsoring the arguments for the bill, which was introduced at the request of the League...
...Melish will present petitions signed by 18,000 college students, including 850 representatives from Harvard to the United States Senate committee on military affairs in Washington. He will then present to the Senate the arguments for the bill which have been prepared by the Socialist Club and the League for Industrial Democracy...