Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Presbyterian, and a Wet, said: "If there is any Vatican prejudicing the freedom of our political life it is not the ancient Vatican at Rome, but the browbeating Vatican which the Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church has erected just across from the United States Senate Office Building.... As a Democrat I am not only disgusted with Prohibition, but I have, I confess, grown restive under the long exclusion of the Democratic party from power...
Though born to a family of musical traditions (his great grandfather made the first pipe-organ west of the Alleghenies) and intent upon studying to qualify as organist of the Pittsburgh Presbyterian Church, Mr. Cadman, as a lad, entered the employ of the Carnegie Steel Co., worked as messenger boy under Charles M. Schwab. Into the office he dragged couplings, hung them on a frame, created a metallophone after a fashion. Thus equipped, he be guiled the tedious hours of clerks and bookkeepers with lilting, popular tunes. During these "office days," the melodies kept rippling through his head, took embryonic...
...United Church of Canada (Congregational, Methodist, Presbyterian) is a huge success, according to its Moderator, the Rt. Rev. James Endicott. Sailing last week down the St. Lawrence River, headed for Asiatic mission fields, this earnest, enthusiastic worker for Community found time to indite a detailed paean of jubilee of the working of the spirit in his domain that reaches from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Its conclusions were the more remarkable in that the work has been done in a year and a half (the United Church was inaugurated June 10, 1925); they were convincing in that their recorder...
...Presbyterian divine who had held many offices under the Commonwealth, notably being chaplain General Monk. After graduating from Trinity College. Cambridge, he came to London under the patronage of the Duke of Buckingham, with the intention of earning a living as an actor. But though, it is said, he was a fine reader, his seemingly incurable stage fright made an actor's career out of the question...
Several facts seemed to point to an explanation: 1) The former Duchess has married a French Roman Catholic, Lieut.-Col. Jacques Balsan. 2) The Duke has espoused by a Presbyterian marriage the former Gladys Marie Deacon of Boston. 3) The Duke has recently evinced an intention of joining the Roman Catholic Church...