Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born. To Dr. James Alexander ("Bud") Stillman Jr.. interne at Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, son of Banker James Alexander Stillman and his divorced wife, Mrs. Fowler McCormick; and Lena Wilson Stillman, Quebec farmer's daughter: a son, their second child...
...naval maneuvers, which are to take place next month involving 177 ships and 447 airplanes and encompassing 5.000,000 sq. mi. of seaways, cause churchmen the greatest alarm. Against them Editor Edmund B. Chaffee published an "Open Letter to the President" in his Presbyterian Tribune. The Christian Century editorialized vigorously. The Department of International Justice and Goodwill of the Federal Council of Churches came out with a forthright protest to the President signed by 200 churchfolk, including some of the ablest bishops, pastors, religious editors, missionary leaders and pedagogs in the land. Rev. Harry Frederick Wrard, Union Theological Seminary professor...
...Trenton, N. J. last week a Presbyterian judicial commission of six unanimously found Rev. Dr. J. Gresham Machen, fiery Fundamentalist, guilty on six counts of having defied the authority of his Church by belonging to the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions (TIME, March 11 et ante). The commission sentenced this "divisive doctor" to suspension from the ministry...
That a ministers' union even existed was news to many a churchgoer. Actually the Manhattan local, first of its kind, is four years old, has thus passed the period of probation necessary to A. F. of L. affiliation. Interracial and interdenominational, it was founded with the help of Presbyterian Rev. Edmund B. Chaffee, now editor of the Presbyterian Tribune, holds its monthly meetings at his Labor Temple in radical 14th Street (TIME, Sept. 24). Though the union members know that ministers' salaries are unstable, averaging $2,500 a year throughout the U. S., they sedulously avoid suggesting that...
President of the Manhattan local is Rev. Dr. David M. Cory, Brooklyn Presbyterian who won his labor spurs and a mauling by police when he picketed the Brooklyn Edison Co. two years ago. Vice President is Rev. William Lloyd Imes, Negro pastor of Harlem's St. James Presbyterian Church. Others of the 75 union members: Rabbis Israel Goldstein, Alexander Lyons and Sidney Goldstein; Dean Henry Pitney Van Dusen of Union Theological Seminary; Presbyterian Rev. Cameron P. Hall; Methodist Rev. F. Theodore Minor. Least parochial to carry a union card is Rev. James Myers, able researcher, idealistic unionizer, industrial secretary...