Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Presbyterian Tribune: "If the producers are really interested in the good will of the church press, it would be to their advantage to forgive this legal debt...
...University of Omaha has had the ''Municipal" in its title for only four years. Before that it was as rock-ribbed a private Presbyterian institution as ever had a 9 o'clock curfew for students under 18. One year of Depression was enough to break it and in 1931 the city took it over. The school board appointed nine regents and the regents called Dean Sealock of the Uni-versity of Nebraska College of Education to put the university on its feet...
...world president, Dr. Daniel Alfred ("Dan") Poling. They marched in a great parade to show how they felt about peace. And they sang lustily, often under the leadership of unctuous, trombone-playing Homer Alvan Rodeheaver. Beforehand, C. E.'s Vice President William Hiram Foulkes had written in The Presbyterian: "These Endeavorers are a colorful, cheerful crowd. They march with badges and banners and with singing hearts. If any one is inclined to chide them because at times they appear a bit too noisy, let him remember that it is a 'joyful noise' that they are making...
...years ago when the organist of St. George's Episcopal Church, Flushing, L. I. lost the use of a hand, his 13-year-old son stepped up to the console, took his father's place. Six years later Son Raymond Huntington Woodman became organist at First Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn. He is still there, a goateed, white-haired, 74-year-oldster who has written many a song, anthem and organ piece, played more than 50,000 numbers. Genteel Organist Woodman says: "When I first went into music it was regarded as equivalent to retiring from social life. Many well...
Seeking Divorce. Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, 42, author (The Good Earth, Sons, House Divided), onetime Presbyterian mission teacher in China, resigned because of her religious liberalism (TIME, May 8, 1933); from John Lossing Buck, onetime agricultural missionary; in Reno. She was reported planning to marry President Richard John Walsh of John Day Co., who published her Pulitzer-Prize-winning The Good Earth...