Word: pastors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...RAYMOND H. ROSCHE Pastor...
...also a man, an insignificant song writer and storm trooper, carefully chosen as a party hero because there was something in his background to appeal to almost every one of the heterogeneous groups that make up the Nazi party. Horst Wessel was the son of a well-known Lutheran pastor; that was for the Conservatives. He was a registered law student at the University of Berlin; that was for the Intellectuals. He was a that was for the Aristocrats. He led the notorious Fifth Storm Battalion, and spent his life in a series of fights with Communist gangsters in Berlin...
...retirements. Most prominent figure at the conference was Dr. John W. Perry of Tennessee, chairman of the potent Committee on Episcopacy. A lean, crisp-voiced, white-mustached, Virginia-born minister, Dr. Perry has long worked for home missions and Negro education, was once called by a well-meaning Negro pastor "a friend whose skin is white but whose heart is black...
Said Socialist Shorter: "It's a white elephant off my hands." (The church was $12,000 in debt, the pastor's salary $1,500 in arrears.) He promptly announced a new Non-Denominational Church of the People, a "rigorous, radical, revolutionary church" with no symbolism, no magical elements, no hymning the "Blood of the Lamb." All classes and all races might come to learn of the social teachings of Jesus. For the first day of the new church, last Sunday, Socialist Shorter obtained the Seattle Repertory Players' theatre in the morning, the University of Seattle...
...Sweet Rosie O'Grady" (1896) was written by Maude Nugent who sang as a soubrette at Tony Pastor's on Fourteenth Street, at the old Madison Square Garden Roof where Harry K. Thaw shot Stanford White. Maude Nugent is a grandmother now, gets some $400 a year royalties from "Rosie O'Grady." She lives with a daughter in uptown. Manhattan...