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...Palm Sunday Cleveland's Pastor Frank H. Ferris and his well-to-do Fairmount Presbyterian congregation celebrated their first services in a brand-new church. Most magnificent of all the new church's handsome trappings was a set of 37 stained-glass windows picturing the life of Christ. Few U.S. churches could boast their equals, and none precisely like them had ever been seen in a U.S. church before. For the world's makers of stained-glass windows they reopened an artistic question that most purists had settled a generation...
...allowed to remain, and the U.S.-Australian Lutherans at Madang on the same coast sent seven of their people to save Finschhafen for the church. Among the seven was Dr. Agnes Hoeger, a graduate of the University of Minnesota's Medical School and the daughter of a Lutheran pastor at Fargo...
...this week. In his office in the Social Security Building, Donald Marr Nelson, Boss of the War Production Board, lifted his bland face from his desk, glanced at the hordes of advisers, callers, clerks streaming in & out, remarked: "This is a hell of a congregation I'm pastor...
Like his chief, Franklin Roosevelt, Pastor Nelson had a vast disinclination to fire anyone. There were still other sour voices in the choir-loft, bickerings among the elders. There were few new faces in WPB; most of them had come right over from SPAB and OPM. Tons of paper still needed seven signatures on each item. Jobs overlapped. In rubber, for instance: tall, bald Arthur Newhall handled the problem of rubber imports (there are virtually none). Production of synthetic rubber was technically under the command of WPB's raw materials Boss William L. ("Bill") Batt, was actually in charge...
...youngest Morgan son, Hugh, stands off and watches the action go by, and it is through his eyes that the picture is shown. Walter Pidgeon comes to the town as the local pastor, and acts as the moderator and go-between in the social problems which face the ever-poor miners. His counsel helps to avert violence during a long, hard winter when the miners are on strike. Maureen O'Hara, the eligible daughter, falls in love with Pidgeon, but he, fearing he can never offer her a big enough income, shuts himself in his church while the Oxford-trained...