Word: potterer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...victorious spokesmen for the J. Smith Club were Phillip C. Potter. Jr. 3L and Joseph R. Cortese...
Spokesmen for the eight-man Smith Club will be Joseph R. Cortese 3L, and Philip C. Potter, Jr. 3L, and for the Warren Club, Brock Adams 3L and Saul Z. Cohen...
Five years later, in his second parish at Mattapan, Mass., a visiting Unitarian pronounced his sermon the "best Unitarian sermon I ever heard!" Baptist Potter decided to find out what he really was. He marched into Unitarian headquarters on Boston's Beacon Street and preached the national secretary a sample sermon on Jesus. Yes, said the secretary, he was Unitarian all right...
Badgering Bryan. The high point of Potter's career as a Unitarian was his series of five debates in 1923-24 with Fundamentalist Dr. John Roach Straton of New York City's Calvary Baptist Church. The subjects-the infallibility of the Bible, evolution, the Virgin Birth, the divinity and second coming of Christ- were, says Potter, "part of a crisis in theology." Police and firemen had to be called out to handle the crowds, and the ding-dong battle made Potter, at West Side Unitarian Church, one of Manhattan's best-known preachers...
...Potter was on hand for the famous Scopes evolution trial at Dayton, Tenn. in 1925. As part of the team of big names and intellectuals who defended Schoolteacher Scopes and the theory of evolution, Dr. Potter and his wife lived at the "Monkey House," as defense headquarters was called. One of his jobs: advising Lawyer Clarence Darrow how to badger Fundamentalist William Jennings Bryan with Biblical quiddities, such as how the Garden of Eden's serpent got around before God condemned him to wriggling on his belly...