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Many a top churchman, like many a man-in-the-pew, thinks that America's divided Protestants suffer from too much Protestantism. Said Episcopalian gadfly Dr. Bernard Iddings Bell in a recent Atlantic Monthly: the chief obstacle to Christian unity is not mere divergence of structure and administration among the churches, but the cleavage between those who believe in Christ's divinity and those who don't. Says neo-orthodox Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr in the current Presbyterian quarterly, Theology Today: "The problem of ecumenical Christianity in America is the problem of resolving what is true and false...
...best man as Widower Clark and British-born Actress Violet Heming were married. Best Man Truman, the only participant not in formal rig, seemed to be the calmest person in the church. He delivered the ring at the right moment, stood through the ceremony, then stepped back into a pew with Mrs. Truman and daughter Mary Margaret, both in street dress. The President did not kiss the 50-year-old, misty-eyed bride...
Editorially, The Living Church stood squarely behind the Bishop: "The type of religion advocated by Mr. Rockefeller is especially dangerous because it seems plausible to the pragmatic American man-in-the-pew...
...President J. Howard Pew attacked the Anglo-American oil agreement as a cartel. "What is this," cried he, "but a cartel? Such arrangements in international trade are exactly what we call at home monopolistic practices or combinations in restraint of trade...
...Multimillionaire G.O.P. Oilman Joe Pew, political promoter who usually lets his money talk, made the first political speech of his career last week in Philadelphia. Said he: "We are going to see the greatest Republican sweep in history, from one end of the country to the other." He put doubtful Pennsylvania solidly into the Dewey column, adding: "President Roosevelt is not campaigning for himself, but for Senator Harry Truman, who he hopes to make the next President of the U.S. We will never stand for this...