Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...until the motherly contralto brought him back for a bow, gave him a resounding kiss. The War turned Richard Crooks's mind from singing. He overstated his age to join the 626th Aero Squadron, learned flying from Col. Clarence Chamberlin. He was selling insurance when the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church chose him from 46 applicants to be its tenor soloist. There followed concerts with Walter Damrosch's New York Symphony, concerts on his own, numerous festival engagements, finally an operatic debut six years ago in Germany...
...country place where he sometimes plows with two oxen. In Manhattan, where he owns a house in the East Thirties, he steers clear of Tammany Hall. He is a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (hobby, art collecting) and of Princeton University (religion, Presbyterian). His tall, thin figure draped in a loosely cut suit has been seen on many a public platform, from which he has issued dignified appeals for charity from behind a mustache which is less voluminous than it once was. His brother is famed Naturalist Henry Fairfield Osborn; his wife was Alice Dodge, which accounts...
...been its bankers, Pennsylvania has never been a banker's road. It is a Pennsylvania institution, socially, financially, politically. President Atterbury runs the road. He has been a Pennsy man since he left college in 1886. Son of a lawyer who quit a Detroit practice to become a Presbyterian preacher and who wanted his son to enter the ministry. President Atterbury started in the Pennsylvania's great Altoona shops. In 1903 President Cassatt jumped him to general manager of the eastern region, a key post. Thereafter his rise, like all railroadmen's, was slow. There...
...week, Dr. Buchman and his 59 Group workers were well started on a great U. S. push. It had begun with a meeting in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, a luncheon to the Press, a ten-day house party at Briarcliff Manor. To anyone who recalled how that stalwart Presbyterian John Grier Hibben drove Buchmanism off the Princeton campus in disgrace for over-zealous proselytizing in 1926, the extraordinary eminence of the Waldorf meeting's sponsors would have been a surprise. On the reception committee were not only such conservative and ultra-socialite names as Mr. & Mrs. Frederic William...
Absent from New York, Bishop Francis John McConnell had not given explicit permission to use his name, but he voiced no complaint. Later Rev. Dr. Cleland Boyd McAfee (Presbyterian missions) wrote the Groups that he had been listed "by mistake." Nevertheless, the array of sponsors showed that what was once "Buchmanism" and is now The Groups has at last found wide favor in high places...