Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under sharp questioning by grey, stooped Defense Attorney William Chan-ler-who described his client as a man who had sown his "mental wild oats" in his youth but had long since reformed-she admitted that neither she nor Remington had been "orthodox Communists." They had associated with Trotskyites, had not held party cards, had paid dues only irregularly. But she stuck stoutly to her story that she had frequently been along, as driver of the car, when Elizabeth Bentley and Remington met in Washington. On such occasions, she testified, she parked in various quiet spots, heard her husband...
Last week Colonel Lawrence Wilkinson New York State's new Civil Defense boss, showed that he did not believe an enemy would necessarily be tactically orthodox in planning a bombing assault: he issued a detailed plan for detecting radioactive contamination...
Pooled Ideas. The new organization is called the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Nine years in the making, it is a merger of the most important Protestant and Eastern Orthodox agencies in the U.S. One of them, the Federal Council of Churches, was itself a federation of 27 religious bodies with 29 million members; the seven others were interdenominational agencies organized for specific purposes. Their names: the International Council of Religious Education, the Foreign Missions Conference of North America, the Missionary Education Movement of the United States and Canada, the Home Missions Council of North America...
...National Council's work will be divided into four major fields-Education, Life & Work (to deal with such problems as race relations and economic injustice), Home Missions and Foreign Missions. Through these divisions the council's impact will be felt in 150,000 Protestant and Orthodox member churches (the two large U.S. denominations to remain outside are the Southern Baptist Convention and the Missouri Synod of the Lutheran Church...
...Canadian pulp & paper mill town of Marathon (present pop. 2,000) could worship together amicably in one church. Last week the wager looked as secure as Mr. Barrow's trim white clapboard Holy Trinity Church in Marathon. Anglicans, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Baptists, members of the United Church, the Greek Orthodox Church and the Salvation Army were joined into one devout congregation, celebrating together the payment of the first $15,000 installment on the church mortgage...