Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What was interpreted as the opening of Senator Borah's campaign for the presidency in 1928 took place last week in Baltimore. The Senator addressed the Presbyterian General Assembly, discussed the demand of antiprohibitionists for a referendum and exclaimed...
...Senator Borah, they now hope to have found him. On Sunday Mr. Borah delivered a militantly dry address before the Presbyterian General Assembly in Baltimore. This circumstance, which seems to unite in him the sentiments of orthodoxy and reform, joins with his heritage from the west where the anti-saloon league did its systematic best, to make the Idaho Senator a man marked for the cause. Indeed, Mr. Borah possesses a Bryanesque build and the same loud sympathies which gave the commoner his crusading character. And both won fame from the power of invective. One cannot call the New York...
Died. Dr. William D. Melton, 58, President of the University of South Carolina, influential Presbyterian; at Columbia...
...American Medical Association convention there, Mrs. John Mark Hanna stayed, grieving over the recent death of her husband. At Milwaukee the Y. W. C. A. delegates were thinking of her for their next president, recalled her work on their national board, her beneficient work among Negroes. A tolerant Presbyterian herself, she had long advocated the freer membership requirements. So with little opposition they chose her president for the next two-year term...
...present week the Presbyterian Laymen's Committee, with onetime (1921-22) Postmaster General Will H. Hays as chairman and Secretary Andrew W. Mellon as treasurer, will be soliciting "as limited a list as possible" for $15,000,000 to put the Presbyterian Ministers' Retirement Plan in operation. The enterprise has the cooperation of many a millionaire, such as Dwight W. Morrow, Alba B. Johnson...