Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Along with many another divine, President John Timothy Stone of Chicago's Presbyterian Theological Seminary publicly disdained even to reply to the President's appeal. Snorted he: "What I am going to do for the President is to pray for him, because he needs it. It is the President's business to know how to run the nation and not the clergy...
Italians charged that Ethiopians were firing dumdum bullets from rifles and machine guns made in England, Belgium and the U. S. last week. The compliment was returned by U. S. Presbyterian Missionary Doctor Robert W. Hockman of Jijiga. Said he: "Even the use of dumdum bullets-and I am certain they are being used-does not affect the Ethiopian warriors, who by tradition are accustomed to all sorts of the most unspeakable barbarity. This country cannot be overcome by mechanized armies. It is remarkable to see thousands of warriors spring from the grass and come from behind rocky hills when...
...Lord Tweedsmuir is easily reminded of the Presbyterian divine who, when asked what he thought of Fielding's robust novel Tom Jones, replied, "Lads, it's grand stuff for taking the taste of the Apostles out of your mouth...
...Episcopal Church Pension Fund, founded in 1917, has prospered well, increased its assets from $8,500,000 to $32,000,000, largely through good management and the fact that among its best friends has been J. P. Morgan. Last week the less-publicized Presbyterian Church Pension Board revealed that it, too, has friends in high places. Its secretary, Rev. Henry B. Master of Philadelphia, announced that the Board's assets have increased from $5,000,000 in 1910 to $35,000,000 today. On its rolls are 96% of all Presbyterian ministers and missionaries, its retired beneficiaries receiving...
Died. Mrs. Harold Elstner Talbott, 71, first citizen of Dayton, Ohio, co-founder of the famed Westminster Choir and Choral School; of a heart attack; in Dayton. Rich Mrs. Talbott, long a Presbyterian Church choir singer, founded her group nine years ago with Dr. John Finley Williamson, financed it liberally, accompanied it on trips to 200 U. S. cities and, in 1929, a European tour. Busy with the Choir and other causes, Mrs. Talbott raised nine children, had 32 grandchildren for whom she purchased a 24-passenger...