Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...official delegates are the Debating Council, Advocate, Lampoon, Non-Resident Students' Center, Avukah Society, De Molay Club. Radcliffe Student Union, John Reed Club, Leverett, Dunster, Eliot, Adams, Kirkland, and Winthrop Houses, the dormitories, Westminster Club, Freshman Union Club, and student clubs in the Lutheran, Methodist, Unitarian, Congregational, Baptist, Catholic, Presbyterian, and Christ Churches...
...Nominee Thomas has scoured the continent from coast to coast, since July 1 has averaged two speeches a day and spent most of his nights in Pullman upper berths, although enough intellectual candor has gone into his speeches to debunk the inflated bombast of U. S. politics, this onetime Presbyterian minister has made much less impression in this campaign than he did in 1932. That year, because many a thoughtful citizen refused to have either Hoover or Roosevelt, the Socialist Party, with Norman Thomas heading its ticket, rolled up 884.741 votes its best record since Eugene Debs nearly touched...
...Wells College (women only) in Aurora, N. Y., alma mater of Mrs. Grover Cleveland, last week inducted as its eighth president one of its own trustees, sober, pudgy William Ernest Weld, 55, Presbyterian minister, authority on India. Since 1929 Dr. Weld had been economics professor and dean of the college of the University of Rochester...
...should be regulated, some liberals have squirmed because the strict regulation which now exists was devised by Roman Catholics, is now in the Catholic hands of Motion Picture Production Code Administrator Joseph I. ("Joe") Breen. Last week was announced a step, obviously the work of astute Will H. Hays, Presbyterian Elder, which may make U. S. Protestants feel better about the part their churches play in purifying the nation's pictures. The most potent executive of the Y. M. C. A., General Secretary Francis Stuart Harmon, 41, turned in his resignation, made ready to sit on the board...
...gatherings in his Pro-Cathedral accomplished nothing else they brought baldish, hawk-nosed George Craig Stewart once more to the attention of his Church. This churchman was once a bellboy in Chicago's Brevoort Hotel, whither he had fled from the home of a Scottish Presbyterian aunt in Ontario. Before that he had lived with his Scottish father, a grocer of Saginaw, Mich. In Chicago young Stewart worked in a mission, gained a scholarship in the Moody Bible Institute, earned his way through Northwestern University by preaching in a Methodist church. A final religious shift brought...