Word: pastor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fresno, Calif., registrations at the Fresno Evening High School boomed when Charles Woessner, accounting machine salesman and onetime Baptist pastor, announced two courses in "How To Fall in Love and Stay...
...Morristown for the year past, a ruddy-faced, 32-year-old Union Theological Seminary graduate named Richard A. Morford has been acting pastor of First Presbyterian Church, whose members proudly claim that George Washington once worshipped there. Presbyterian Morford went to First Church in 1931 as Minister of Christian Education, made himself popular with the young people. He made no bones of the fact that he is a Socialist. Year ago he helped bring Norman Thomas to Morristown, introduced that amiable onetime Presbyterian minister and Presidential candidate to his listeners. Abruptly last week Socialist Morford announced his resignation, declined...
...Christian times, and each generation was a little harder than the one before. Because his father took a scunner against him, Hannes was condemned to be educated. While his brothers and sisters were brought up to be farmers he learned the three R's with the local pastor. Christiane, the Count's daughter, was his fellow-student, and they grew up to be harum-scarum pals. Then Christiane's father took her away and Hannes left home too, to learn engineering. After the War he went back to farming again, and one day he inherited his father...
...college president. A son of the rich, coal-operating Beurys for whom Beury, W. Va., is named, Charles Ezra Beury graduated from Princeton in 1903. When he received a law degree from Harvard three years later it was in absentia because that day he was marrying the Lutheran pastor's daughter in his native Shamokin, Pa. His stock joke: "I became a bachelor and a benedict on the same...
...last 20 years this Dominican was believed to have performed 58,000 miracles, or eight a day. He was canonized in 1455. The Dominicans who conduct the Manhattan church were piously pleased to receive their patron's relic. The Very Rev. William A. Marchant, prior and pastor of St. Vincent Ferrer's, estimated the reliquary to be at least 450 years old. But who the "personal friend'' was that brought him this invaluable antique, Father Marchant would not tell...