Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rome last week, in an official Vatican communiqué to the World press, these points were made: first His Holiness is "highly pleased" that the Chairman of the U. S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, Senator William Edgar Borah (casual Presbyterian) made private protest anent the persecutions to Soviet Acting Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maximovitch Litvinov. The Vatican further intimated that Pope Pius is "deeply disappointed" because, despite his appeals, no Christian Government whatsoever has made any official, diplomatic protest to Moscow; third, the Vatican intimated that Pope Pius is particularly disappointed with the Government of the Irish Free...
...Presbyterian Magazine New York...
...John Meigs, his patriarchal Presbyterian father, had raised The Hill to a high place among U. S. preparatory-schools. His mother, "Mrs. John," remained at the school, a matriarchal and religious influence, an embodiment of Hill tradition, while the young King carried on after his father's death. He had been to Yale and Oxford. He had firm ideas about efficiency of body and mind. He administered the school as a business concern, left teaching to the teachers, led prayers like a chairman-of-the-board. An able tennis player, he coached the tennis team, then mastered golf mechanically...
Tentative plans call for 100 members, with a self-perpetuating executive committee of 15-"massing the best business talent of the church for the wisest possible handling of consecrated funds." The Foundation will not interfere with the annual Presbyterian benevolence budget (about $12,000,000), but will seek contributions from people who would not ordinarily give to mission boards and other church departments. Work anticipated: assistance to colleges, hospitals, seminaries, medical missions; disaster relief...
Originator and probably first president of the Presbyterian Foundation is George Draper Dayton, 73, Minneapolis merchant (his department store employs 2,000), president of Dayton Investment Co., a civic philanthropist long active in farm promotion, land reclamation...