Word: pastoral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fortnight with an ankle sprained by falling at the knockout. In the picture, Kid Galahad's most spectacular victory before he wins the title is against a heavyweight named "O'Brien." O'Brien is really Bob Westell, leading California heavyweight, who this week fights Bob Pastor at Los Angeles in the first major heavyweight Dout of the season...
...North Adams (Mass.) National Bank, director in a half-dozen New England firms. Big, bald Banker Clark traveled 45,000 miles during his year in office, acquired a new pulpit manner speaking in hundreds of churches. Member of a rich Berkshire family (his father gave his old pastor $25,000 when that man of God retired), Banker Clark has long given more than a tithe of his in come to the church. His parting suggestion to North Baptism, which delegates approved, was to enter upon "an adventure in tithing," each member promising 10% of income for three months...
...kind neighbors. Temple Emanu-El, San Francisco's largest synagog, offered the use of its building on Sundays. A small Methodist church offered the Templers a place to worship in between regular services. And San Francisco's most vigorous Congregational church made what Temple's pastor called an offer of "marriage." Temple accepted. Last Sunday for the first time Methodists mingled with Congregationalists in First Church (2,500 seats), downtown near the swank St. Francis Hotel...
Good friends are Methodist Dr. Edgar Allan Lowther, who went to Temple in 1931 from a pastorate in Oakland, Calif., and Congregationalist Dr. Jason Noble Pierce, who used to be Calvin Coolidge's pastor in Washington, and was brought to San Francisco in 1933 by a potent Californian, onetime Secretary of the Navy Curtis Dwight Wilbur. Methodist Lowther is tall, hawk-faced, spare, a liberal and a pacifist. Congregationalist Pierce is plump, jolly, a Wartime chaplain (see col. 2), American Legionary and 100% Republican. While Dr. Lowther was struggling to make a go of his hotel-church. Dr. Pierce...
According to word received last night the future titans of industry have organized a Paradise, under guidance of a mysterious Brother William, in imitation of Father Divine's Harlem establishment. Letters have been sent to the New York pastor asking advice and names for angels. Answers are expected any time...