Word: pastor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...campus at Hightstown, N. J., with new buildings, made his school the pride of U. S. Baptists and a major feeder for Princeton. Last week Peddie, too, got a religious, athletic new headmaster in the Rev. Wilbour E. Saunders, Secretary of the Rochester (N. Y.) Federation of Churches, onetime pastor of Brooklyn's Marcy Avenue Baptist Church. Peddie trustees knew they were choosing a man whose study at Cambridge had given him a strong enthusiasm for the atmosphere and methods of the English public schools...
...downtown Worth Street, moved northward with the city's color line. When the church was in midtown 26 years ago there arrived in its pulpit a tall, rawboned, Yale-trained Negro named A. (for Adam) Clayton Powell. After years of planning for a model church in Harlem, Pastor Powell began raising money in 1920, got 2,000 people to promise to give their church a tenth of their weekly earnings. Two years later ground was broken for a great Gothic-spired church. In triple-quick time the congregation paid off a $60,000 mortgage...
...Grimmest of grim Fundamentalists, he orates against Evolution, denounces the Roman Catholic Church, flays the "liquor crowd," excoriates birth control and divorce, thunders against bridge, cigarets, the cinema. The fact that in 1926 he shot and killed one D. E. Chipps, friend of Fort Worth's mayor whom Pastor Norris was then denouncing, did not bother the Baptists of First Church. Pastor Norris said he shot (four times) in self-defense because he thought Chipps was armed. A trial jury believed...
...Pastor Bradley, who believes there is "a definite trend toward use of the dance in worship," was the first minister to try it in Boston. In Manhattan where religion ferments more vigorously, pious mummery was introduced long ago, notably by Rev. Dr. William Norman Guthrie. Currently Manhattan's religious dancing is provided not in Dr. Guthrie's church of St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie but in those which are welcoming stately, white-haired Dancer Ruth St. Denis, 54, good Christian Scientist. Three years ago Miss St. Denis founded a Society for the Spiritual Arts whose...
Dean Sothern Jennings, 28, son of the pastor of San Francisco's fashionable St. Luke's Episcopal Church, was No. 1 rewriteman on Hearst's Call-Bulletin. Last May that paper's chapter of the American Newspaper Guild elected him delegate to the St. Paul convention, and Newsman Jennings arranged his vacation accordingly. At the last minute the city editor, managing editor and publisher all informed Jennings he could not be spared at that time. Said Hearst's Publisher Robert Paul Holliday: "The only way you can have this vacation money is to resign." Dean...