Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President found himself at the Executive offices near Paul Smith's Hotel one morning, opening the mail and attending to the affairs of the Republic with the aid of his stenographer only. ¶ Rev. Charles R. Erdman of the Princeton Theological Seminary occupied the pulpit of the little Presbyterian Church at Saranac Lake, N. Y., whither came the President and Mrs. Coolidge, Frank W. Stearns, Senator Cameron of Arizona. ¶ Last December soldiers in the barracks at Culebra, Panama Canal Zone, watched horrified while one Ramon Cordero, Porto Rican native in the U. S. army, shot, killed Corporal Antonio...
...President and Mrs. Coolidge drove 14 miles to attend the Sunday morning service at the First Presbyterian Church in Saranac Lake, N. Y. It was chilly, so the President wore a topcoat during the service, as did most of the 250 in the congregation...
Others who have acted similarly are: Tertius van Dyke who left Park Avenue Presbyterian Church for a Connecticut village charge; Charles Clingman whom St. Thomas' could not lure from smoky Birmingham, Ala.; Dr. Harris E. Kirk who has remained in peaceful Baltimore despite the insistences of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church...
President Erdman. Until three weeks ago Rev. Dr. Charles Rosenbury Erdman of Princeton Theological Seminary was moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly (succeeded by Dr. William Oxley Thompson, TIME, June 7). Last week he was chosen president of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. Probably the most heavily endowed agency of its kind...
Contempt. If the Chicago Tribune and its noisy offspring, Liberty, had their way, they would persuade ignorant readers that Stephen Decatur's ". . . our country right or wrong" is the greatest patriotic phrase ever mouthed. But executives of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church of Manhattan last week invited Dr. Minot C. Morgan of Detroit to be their associate pastor (at $12,000 yearly), he who damned that phrase as "a damnable toast of some patriotic Americans...