Word: pastorates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remember a time in my life when I wasn't sure I would become a clergyman"), he sailed through the College of the Pacific, the Pacific School of Religion, and the Hartford Theological Seminary. Ordained in 1932, he spent the next 16 years as pastor of four different churches, taught at the Pacific School of Religion and Nebraska Wesleyan. He was elected Bishop of the Portland (Ore.) area at 40, the youngest bishop in the history of the Methodist Church...
Into a Manhattan federal courtroom last week strode the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Jr., 51, pastor of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church, longtime (eight terms) U.S. Democratic Congressman and alltime prince of New York City's big (900,000) Negro community. Handsome, carefully tailored Adam Powell was uncommonly nervous. After many and sundry delays the U.S. had finally haled him before a jury on two-year-old charges of dodging federal income taxes. The indictment charged that Powell, in filing 1951 and 1952 tax returns for himself and his estranged wife, Jazz Pianist Hazel Scott, had defrauded...
Powell did it by making some delectable deductions, said Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney Morton Robson in his opening address to the jury. Among other things, said Robson, Pastor Powell wrote...
...Bahaya tribe in Tanganyika Territory, scion of a long line of chiefs, and he became a Christian, along with his father and mother, at the age of eight. Trained by the Roman Catholic missionary White Fathers, he was ordained a priest in 1943, and served as assistant pastor at the Rubya mission for five years before going to Rome for special studies in canon law at the Gregorian University. In 1951 he was named the first bishop of the new diocese of Rutabo in Tanganyika, became the youngest and most active of Africa's 25 black bishops...
...reached an altitude of 300 feet, then unaccountably veered off to the left and crashed. The fuselage of the big Italian DC-7 ripped through a country churchyard and a flock of sheep, leaving a mile-long trail of bodies, tombstones and burning debris. Said the Rev. Thomas Comerford, pastor of the church: "People were screaming, sheep were crying, and dogs were barking. It was like a scene from hell." Of 52 aboard, 30 were killed, and many of the 22 survivors were critically burned...