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...through the University of Kansas by driving a hearse he had taught modern European history at Kansas, Cornell and Penn State), they were impressed by his having been a Wartime propagandist under George Creel, a division chief in the Office of Education be fore he went to Akron. Methodist and Rotarian, Dr. Zook kept more free of local politics than most municipal university presidents. Because he never told how he voted, he was called "Poker Face'' by his professors and by Akron politicians. Dr. Zook did not seek his U. S. job, nor did his friends seek...
...Detroit Newsman, at present a correspondent for the Christian Century, Author Jones knows his preachers well. He portrays 32 of them, chosen after careful consultations among fellow-preachers. Excerpts: ¶ Frederick Bohn Fisher of Ann Arbor. Mich, is the Mahatma Gandhi's most impassioned U. S. devotee. A Methodist missionary in India, he was made a bishop in 1920, resigned in 1930 because his job was "too much burdened with administration and too little harnessed to definite spiritual functions." Of him St. Gandhi has said: "Bishop Fred Fisher first came to visit me on a Monday. He talked...
...Methodist William Leroy ("Bill") Stidger, now of Boston's Church of All Nations, has been criticized as "sensational" and "vaudevillian." He is "frisky as a calf, playful as a puppy, and if need be, billicose as a bull in a beauty shop . . . a combination of Walt Whitman, 'Buffalo Bill' and Theodore Roosevelt." West Virginia-born, he studied at Allegheny College, Brown, and Boston University. He claims he told Author Sinclair Lewis to "write a book about a preacher." Author Lewis settled in Kansas City where "Bill" Stidger was preaching, got him and other local ministers to help...
Fathered by a bushy-haired, oldtime social worker named Charles Frederick Weller and a chubby little Hindu named Kedernath Das Gupta, the World Fellowship has for chairman famed Methodist Bishop Francis John McConnell, for honorary presidents Jane Addams and Herbert Hoover (who let his name be used "if anyone thought it would be of any help...
...proper turbans and costumes. ... I might apply it here by saying that a man's dress and the color and form of his caste marks would show from what city and what church he came. A New York Presbyterian would wear a certain sign. A Chicago Methodist would have another mark. I am a very rich man. and so people approach me with special marks of reverence." And the Gaekwar demonstrated by placing folded hands on his forehead. Invited to attend the Chicago meetings, Mahatma Gandhi cabled Bishop McConnell last May: CAN REPLY ONLY AFTER BREAK FAST. Last week...