Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trust, to be given 50 years later as a "foundation for the education of females in or adjacent to Philadelphia." In 1930 this trust, now worth $50,000 a year, was applied for by the Philadelphia School for Christian Workers, Wilson College at Chambersburg, and Beaver College, all Presbyterian Synodical institutions. The Curran fund was assigned to Beaver by Auditor Francis B. Biddle of Orphans Court. But litigation went on. Last fortnight Judge George Henderson decided in favor of Wilson as a "higher classical institution, highly cultural, with an emphasis on Bible teaching and a missionary spirit," in spite...
...publicly denouncing the Riot Act to strikers from the Passaic, N. J. textile mills in 1926, he was arrested, jailed, held in $10,000 bail. He was again seized last year for picketing with strikers from the Paterson silk mills. Only last October did he formally demit the Presbyterian ministry...
...Presbyterian & Publisher. Born into a family of gentlefolk 47 years ago at Marion, Ohio, Mr. Thomas started life as an orthodox Republican. He voted for Taft in 1908. His father was a Presbyterian minister, as was his Welsh-born grandfather before him. In Marion as a boy he used to deliver copies of the Star. Its publisher, Warren Gamaliel Harding, had a hearty way of slapping him on the back and calling him ''Norm." Years later "Norm" Thomas was thoroughly shocked when his old employer actually got into the White House...
...nobility of the downtrodden. Upon the wreckage, amid the dirt and filth of Spring Street, he built up a practical philosophy about the masses which serves him to this day. In 1910 he married Frances Violet Stewart. Their honeymoon was spent on a tandem bicycle. Born to the Presbyterian Ministry, he went through Union Theological Seminary, emerging, after a newsworthy dispute with his elders on tenets, a Bachelor of Divinity...
...Regiment of the U. S. Marine Corps, stationed at Shanghai: the annual July 4 game against the Shanghai Amateur Baseball Club: 12 to 4. The Amateur Baseball Club, oldest U. S. organization in Shanghai, started in 1872. Composed originally of derelict sailors and bartenders, it played frequently against the Presbyterian Mission at Sunkiangfu, an all-Chinese team captained by onetime Premier Tong Shao...