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Washington's wealthy, ultra-liberal Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam has been engaged for months in a bitter, long-distance feud with the House Un-American Activities Committee.Chairman Harold H. Velde infuriated him by talking about searching for Communists in the ranks of U.S. churchmen. The bishop made some pointed remarks about "vermilion vigilantes"-a term he said he invented to describe those who created as much national distrust as Reds themselves, but had so much "yellow in their makeup" that another color was needed to describe them. In a speech on the floor of the House, California...
...visit to Virginia, she stopped at a Methodist orphanage, saw a 13-year-old girl named Nellie Marie and instantly resolved to make the child her foster daughter. But almost immediately her hopes were checked. Nellie had four younger brothers and sisters, acted as a sort of mother to the group, and could not bear the thought of being separated from them. The Floyds knew they could not support five children without lowering their own level of living, and they were afraid it might be folly to take on a whole new family. Mrs. Floyd had seen only...
...Mitchell, Ind., Harold C. Feightner, executive director of the Indiana Brewers Association, agreed to give "the other side of the case" at a camp meeting of Methodist youth. Feightner traced the course of Biblical wine-bibbing from Noah to the marriage at Cana, summed up: "The builders of the Bible saw virtue in the cultivation of the vine and the moderate use of its product." His audience, totally abstaining from applause, preferred the other invited speakers: a basketball star, a social worker, a judge, and two members of Alcoholics Anonymous...
...Senator Joseph McCarthy, whose investigating committee three weeks ago hired J. B. Matthews as its executive director. Few Americans have held a Red hunting license longer or beat the bushes harder than J. B. Matthews. After getting an A.B. degree from Asbury College, Wilmore, Ky., he was a Methodist lay missionary in Java, translated a hymnal into Malay, later studied at Union Theological Seminary, taught Oriental languages and current events at Fisk and Howard Universities for Negroes. He became a Socialist, and, unlike most U.S. Socialists, an active fellow traveler of the Communists, belonging to 28 Commie fronts...
...Central Conference of American Rabbis (Reform), meeting in Estes Park, Coio.. heard its president rebuke "legislators who would seal the lips of prophetic clergymen." Said Rabbi Joseph L. Fink of Buffalo, in a reference to congressional criticism of Methodist Bishop G. Bromiey Oxnam (TIME, March 30): "For any Congressman, in furious self-rectitude, to intimidate clergymen with the threat of besmirching public investigation ... is an unprecedented violation of a Congressman's trust...