Word: pastorate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thornwell Jacobs, 57, president of Atlanta's Oglethorpe University, tipped the scales at 150 Ib. Dr. Witherspoon Dodge, 47, pastor of Atlanta's "Radio Church," weighed in at 135 Ib. The purse was $200, which Preacher Dodge said President Jacobs owed him for part-time teaching at Oglethorpe. The ring was President Jacobs' office. There were no spectators...
...after an appendectomy, went to President Jacobs to complain about the nonpayment of his salary, demanded $200. President Jacobs reminded him that since June 1, 1932 the University had dropped set salaries, paid its faculty only what it could afford from time to time. Nevertheless Preacher Dodge, who was pastor of Atlanta's Central Congregational Church until parishioners tired of his advanced religious views, needed the money and thought he should have it. One morning last week wiry little Preacher Dodge marched into wiry little President Jacobs' office for a showdown...
...case any of their flock did not know how to act, priests added a postscript to the Archbishop's letter: "Your pastor and the other priests of this parish have discontinued their subscriptions to the Sunpapers. ... I am notifying the firms with which I deal to send me statements in full. ... I shall notify them it will be impossible for me to be guided by advertisements in papers which I do not read...
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...Church in the U. S. A. last month expressed willingness to merge (TIME, June 11). A candidate for moderator was Dr. Francis Scott McBride, national superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League. The United Presbyterians, however, gave a clear majority to Rev. Dr. John Alvin Orr, 59, suave, well-dressed pastor of Pittsburgh's wealthy First Church and president of that city's Citizens' League. Two days later the assembly voted 123-to-113 against submitting to the 67 presbyteries of the United Church the proposal to merge with the Presbyterian Church...