Word: pastors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been praying for.'' Ordained at 23, Covert asked a Minnesota missions superintendent for "the hardest field in the State," was assigned to an industrial suburb of St. Paul. He soon became the youngest synod moderator ever elected in Minnesota. Today Dr. Covert is called a "pastor to pastors" because he has sympathetically heard the woes of thousands of his fellows. Tall and stocky, he dresses well, has twinkling eyes and a stubborn shock of white hair, has spoken before 297 local presbyteries. The Philadelphia fundamentalists who founded the ''rebel'' missions board (TIME, April...
...staggered back from the depths, but from a brisk and business-like Man of God named Harry Emerson Fosdick. During the War Dr. Fosdick had "stimulated raiding parties to their murderous tasks'' from Y. M. C. A. huts behind the lines. Today as the personal pastor of the two younger John D. Rockefellers in their $15.000,000 Riverside Church in Manhattan, he is one of the most popularly famed preachers in the land. He delivered his apostrophe to the Unknown Soldier at a Conference on War and Economic Injustice in Manhattan's Broadway Tabernacle before 35 fellow...
...planets been properly placed above small Spencer, Wis. on the night of June 13, 1883 they would have pointed auspiciously, for one born under them, to the second week in May 1934. So born was Tyler Dennett, son of Spencer's Baptist pastor. On the first day of last week Tyler Dennett was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his biography of John Hay (TIME, May 14). On the sixth day he was named loth president of Williams College...
...celebrant of the mass alone drinks from the chalice, save for the Pope in Rome. When he receives communion at a Papal High Mass he drinks the wine through a golden pipe. Lutherans receive communion in the two species, from a common cup or from individual ones as the pastor may decide...
...Hall of Mirrors of Cincinnati's Netherland Plaza Hotel banquet tables gleamed, politicians and businessmen made speeches, a pastor prayed, breathless messenger boys brought in sheaves of cables and telegrams from President Roosevelt, Vice President Garner, Guglielmo Marconi, Albert Einstein, many another bigwig. Powel Crosley Jr., founder-president of Crosley Radio Corp. and owner of WLW, headed a six-hour program which 28 radio engineers broadcast from WLW's plant at Mason, 22 miles away. Thus with pomp & ceremony last week was inaugurated by far the most powerful transmitting station on earth. Until last week Warsaw...