Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many U. S. newspapers get local businessmen to sponsor church advertising, sometimes using art work and canned sermonets or thoughts-for-the-week. As chairman of trustees of Atlantic City's Olivet Presbyterian Church, it occurred to Adman Peifer last year that such advertising is dull indeed. He asked local clergymen to try their hands at ad-writing, soon, concluded that "their stuff just didn't have the right slant. They couldn't write a good ad." Last January Adman Peifer, 51 and hardworking, began writing institutional ads for the churches of Atlantic City, turning out swift...
...Cleveland friend. Neurologist John George Gehring, who had bought an old inn in Bethel for a private sanatorium.* When Dr. Gehring died in 1932, aged 75, Mr. Bingham, who had given $200,000 for the John G. Gehring Floor at the Neurological Institute in Manhattan's vast Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Centre, bought his good friend's inn. Last April Mr. Bingham gave $400,000 to found for Professor Joseph Hersey Pratt of Boston's Tufts Medical School, a Joseph H. Pratt Diagnostic Hospital. Last week Mr. Bingham increased this by $300,000 and thus soundly financed...
Judging by the pranks of its pastors, Philadelphia is the most exhilarating vineyard in which a U. S. man of God may labor. There, Rev. Zed Copp, Presbyterian, crusades hotly against Santa Claus, Easter bunnies and the Stork, while spending his spare time transcribing...
...York City. Married to William Shields in 1846, she was mother of a large and active family in the Middle West in a time deeply affected by the Civil War. She died after a brief illness of pneumonia in 1883. A devout member of the Presbyterian Church of which her brother, Alexander Duncan, was the minister, her activities outside her home were largely given to his congregation. Her unselfish neighborliness was attested by many friends...
Since 1910 the Presbyterian Ministers' Fund has insured clergy of all Protestant denominations, has about 12,500 policyholders with more than $60,000,000 insurance in force. It is governed by 60 '"corporators" who elect their own successors, select 18 of their number each year to serve as directors of the Fund. The directors elect the executive officers. WThen Corporator John Wanamaker tried 40 years ago to swing the Fund's business into the general life insurance field he was soundly beaten...