Word: pastoral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That the White House had blundered in composing President Roosevelt's letter to the clergy became painfully plain when it was discovered that his secretariat had plagiarized almost word-for-word from an appeal sent to Wisconsin pastors last March by Governor Philip Fox La Follette. That the secretariat had muffed the preparation of a mailing list of "representative clergymen" was revealed not only by the Eaton incident but by a Kansas City preacher who announced that twelve copies of the letter had reached his church, one for every pastor who had ever tended the flock. That President Roosevelt...
...McCutcheon's for 55 years, Merchant Speers, a good Presbyterian, has been active in many a pious cause. He is glowingly proud of his six sons. Two are in the service of his prosperous store and the rest in the service of God. Son Thomas Guthrie Speers is pastor of Baltimore's Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church. Son Peter teaches in Forman Christian College, Lahore, India; Son James Jr. at Shanghai American School. Last week Son Theodore Cuyler Speers, 36, made his father happy by getting called to a prominent Manhattan church -Central Presbyterian on Park Avenue...
...forbids a priest to engage in business. But last week Bishop Joseph H. Conroy of Ogdensburg, N. Y. felt justified in stretching the letter of the law to permit one of his priests to become a bank president. Belgian-born, Rev. Cyril Stevens, 65, has for 21 years been pastor of small Ticonderoga's only Catholic church, St. Mary's. When Ticonderoga's National Bank looked shaky during the Bank Holiday of 1933, Father Stevens it was-his church being a stockholder and large depositor-who singlehanded saved the bank. The small, dynamic priest buttonholed Ticonderogans, bluntly...
There was the Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith, the Dictator's unofficial chaplain and national organizer of his Share-Our-Wealth Clubs. This onetime pastor of a rich Shreveport Christian Church congregation surpassed himself in a 15-minute eulogy over his dead chief's bier. It began: "Greater love hath no man. . . . The lives of great men do not end with the grave. They just begin. This place marks not the resting place of Huey P. Long, it marks only the burial ground for his body. His spirit shall never rest as long as hungry bodies cry for food...
Thereupon wise, 50-year-old Pastor Hay, husky, six-foot father of three, proceeded to sketch his idea of what such a book should say. Excerpts...