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Their successor is husky, cleft-chinned, 50-year-old Dr. L. (for Lawrence) Wendell Fifield, for the past 14 years pastor of Seattle's Plymouth Congregational Church. Downtown churches, such as his in Seattle, have special, tough problems. Dr. Fifield tackled his with the same zeal which, during an earlier pastorate in South Dakota, earned him a State handball championship. Well-liked by men as well as women, he reduced his church's indebtedness by $116,000, brought nearly 1,600 new members into the congregation (now over 2,000). He built a radio audience all over...
...Night in Lisbon is apparently a harbinger of what Hollywood is up to now that its propaganda pictures (Pastor Hall, Mortal Storm, etc.) have fizzled...
...Canada's Catholics to join the Knights of Labor (forerunner of the A.F. of L.), and it took the prompt and vigorous intervention of the late great James Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore to keep the Vatican from extending the ban to U.S. Catholics. In 1887 Dr. Edward McGlynn, pastor of Manhattan's biggest Catholic parish, had been excommunicated for supporting Henry George's single-tax proposals.* And ten years after Rerum Novamm's publication no Catholic seminary in the U.S. had even elementary courses in economics and sociology...
Fundamentalism cropped up again last week when the Presbyterian General Assembly, meeting in St. Louis, voted down famed Modernist Henry Sloane Coffin for moderator, chose in his stead, by 461-to-404, Dr. Herbert Booth Smith, conservative pastor of America's second-largest Presbyterian church, Immanuel in Los Angeles...
...years ago, Hollywood sat back with a small smile and twiddled its thumbs. Next thing Hollywood knew, Jimmy was on his own. With a franchise to distribute pictures through United Artists, he had formed his own company, Globe Productions, Inc. Jimmy's first regular film release was Pastor Hall, an English-made film of the trials of a Nazi-baited German cleric. His second was to be his own product, Pot o' Gold. Three weeks ago Captain James Roosevelt drew a brief furlough from his duties with th Marine Corps at San Diego, Calif., flew East...