Word: parlin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tribal God. But when Dr. Tittle's Committee on State of the Church tried to have this pacifist declaration reaffirmed last week, 17 of the 74 committee members balked. Led by a layman and World War I veteran, Lawyer Charles C. Parlin, of Englewood, N.J., the dissidents drew up a minority report, placing the Church squarely behind the war, took their report to the Conference floor for a showdown...
Minority Leader Parlin called the majority report "a direct statement of pacifism," declared it "offers to our brothers in China no message except to lay down their arms and surrender to Japan...
...looked exactly like a Roosevelt compromise. The struggle raged about a job that will one day perhaps be all-important: executive secretary of the OPM. The $1-a-yearlings wanted the job for Fredrick M. Eaton, Wall Street lawyer of the firm of Wright, Gordon, Zachry & Parlin. New Dealers wanted almost anyone else to get the post. The struggle went on from the day the President announced the OPM (Dec. 20) until last week. Upshot: the President compromised. He chose a Brookings-Institution-type of man, an expert in administrative procedure, who has dedicated his life to upping standards...
Unemployed since his graduation from University of Virginia Law School last June, 26-year-old Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. will begin the new year by going to work as a $2,100-a-year law clerk in the Wall Street firm of Wright, Gordon, Zachry & Parlin. His responsibilities: "What they'd give to any young fellow fresh out of law school...