Word: petitt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Executive Director Clifford Petitt of New York City's Protestant Council warned council members about the disproportionately small number of Protestant judges in a city whose church membership is close to 30% Protestant. In Brooklyn, for instance, the ratio of Protestant judges is five out of 75, with the other judgeships divided roughly evenly between Roman Catholics and Jews. The court situation, said Petitt, is "crying for help from Protestantism," but New York's Protestants are still badly handicapped in making demands by the lack of unity among denominations. ¶ Writing in the British weekly Spectator...