Word: pastoral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shrine waylay picnicking New Yorkers and make it convenient for them to attend to their spiritual duties. For blocks around vehicles, including a fire engine, nosed in for blessing. But traffic jams developed so the priests blessed every half-hour. After the last mass suppliants fol lowed the pastor, Rev. John Joseph Mahon, and another priest outdoors for the blessing of a special new shrine for motorists. The shrine is a chromium-plated Cadillac radiator frame set in a rock garden. A chromium-plated cross surmounts the radiator-cap and a St. Christo pher medal supplants the Cadillac insignia...
They pledged themselves to "watch the polls [lest] the Wets put across any crooked counting of the votes" at forthcoming Repeal elections. They heard Pastor Norman Vincent Peale of Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Church deplore the fact that "a very high public official, who should represent in his personal attitude the sacred ideals of the people, begins his summer vacation in a sailing vessel on Sunday."* They learned from Mrs. Dora B. Whitney of Michigan that recitations of "The Face On The Barroom Floor'' effectively aided a Dry campaign. They passed a resolution asking "fairminded...
...Fatherland! On the day he became Chancellor, he said to me 'Everything seems like a miracle of God!'" While churchgoers were digesting this, 47 Nazi brides and bridegrooms marched through Berlin in snakedance formation led by a blaring Storm Troop band. At the huge Lazarus-Kirche perspiring Pastor Lenkning married them in batches, sent them off rejoicing to a Bohemian brewery where they blew froth with 1,000 wedding guests. Popping up among the brides & bridegrooms, club-footed Dr. Goebbels urged them, all at the top of his lungs to increase & multiply, bestowed on each couple "a picture...
...first time in its history the Assembly opened its meetings (at 50? and 75? admission per person) to the public. On view were its star performers. Dr. John Heiss, elected president, is a business-like pastor of a Spiritualist church in Jamaica, L. I., publisher of small Long Island newspapers. He announced formation of an education bureau to train Spiritualist missionaries. Rev. Charles J. Morrow of Buffalo, plump and bald, is a "clairaudion." He hears voices in his left ear. In 1931 Spiritualist Morrow predicted that Mussolini would die. Last week Spiritualist Morrow fished questions out of a basket, told...
Died. Rose ("Rose of the Ghetto") Pastor Stokes, 53, famed U. S. radical labor leader; of cancer; in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. As a child (Russian-born) she worked in U. S. sweatshops. Later, a labor reformer, she met and married James Graham Phelps Stokes, socialite philanthropist, who divorced her 20 years later. She led many a strike, received but did not serve a 10-year sentence on a Wartime espionage charge...