Word: pastor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moved in quickly-changing contortions. Their arms rose and fell, their fingers wiggling in concerted movement. Only sound in the church was the creaky tenor voice. When the hymn ended, the gesticulations of the half dozen people ended and the audience -So deaf-mutes-broke into spirited applause. The pastor of Cameron Methodist Episcopal Church of the Deaf, Rev. August H. Staubitz, arose. With lightning fingers he signaled his flock that they were about to behold a lecture on the Passion Play of Oberammergau, for which each of them had paid 10?. The lights went out save for one beam...
...pastor has a right to "a decent living." In 1928 the average one got $1,407 -about the wage of a semiskilled worker. Salary problems are complicated by the fact that there is an ample supply of trained ministers, an oversupply of 40,000 to 50,000 untrained ones...
...support a well-trained minister a church should have at least 350 members. Only 13% of white Protestant churches meet this standard. There are at least 85,000 "feeble" churches unable to keep a full-time pastor, trained or untrained. Probably less than one-fourth of the churches have seminary graduates as full-time pastors; less than one-sixth have pastors with both seminary and college training. About half the U. S. Protestant pastors have neither sort of training...
...Dartmouth. Americo De Masi, 20, had been college fencing champion. Edward N. Wentworth Jr., 21, had been on the soccer squad. Harold D. Watson, 21, had sung in the glee club. So it went down the list: Edward and Alfred Moldenke, 21 and 20, only sons of a Manhattan pastor; William M. Smith Jr., 21; Wilmot H. Schooley, 20; John J. Griffin...
...among the customers. Edward B. Marks is still publishing songs at 62, as acute to the value of a plug by Rudy Vallée as he was to one by Lottie Gilson, the curvey "Little Magnet,'' who in the 1890s drew tears each night at Tony Pastor's on 14th Street. Fortnight ago Edward B. Marks published a song history of the last 40 years, a book as shrewd in its sidelights on changing manners as it is in its appraisal of popular music...