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Powerful. Sam Rayburn's job has often been called the "second most powerful job in the nation." From the days of Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg, the German Lutheran pastor who presided over Congress' first sessions in New York, Speakers of the House have written their will and words into U.S. history. Some of the mighty...
...Continental Army. It was January 1776. A drum beat before the door; a bugle call rang through the church; and before the end of service 300 members of the congregation had enlisted, with their pastor as Colonel. To the close of the Revolution, Pastor John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg kept the field, rising to be a major general...
Next week that stirring scene and many another in the lives of the Muhlenberg (family-greatest in the history of U.S. Lutheranism-will be re-enacted at Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pa. The occasion: the 200th anniversary of the arrival in the U.S. of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg (1711-1787), sire of Washington's general and ancestor of many another famed parson, statesman and educator. He was the real founder and patriarch of the Lutheran Church in the U.S., was called Gachs-wunga-roracks by his Indian friends because "his words went through the hearts of men like a saw through...
...Runners-up for the kudos championship, with three honorary degrees apiece : Radio Pundit Raymond Gram Swing : Lafayette, Muhlenberg, Williams...
...Robert Albert Haughey (pronounced Hoy) went neither to Groton nor Harvard, but did put in "a few years" at Muhlenberg College. He plays poor golf, does not ride to hounds, has no relatives at J. P. Morgan's. At 27 he has been in Wall Street barely long enough to learn the ropes with his Uncle Harold at Hoppin Bros. Last week young Broker Haughey found himself scheduled to get Richard Whitney's seat on the New York Stock Exchange.. He had not asked for it, had merely filed a bid of $59,000. Since this...