Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Bishop William Thomas Manning of the Diocese of New York, last week's meeting was held in the swank Hotel Plaza. Present as guests were Suffragan Bishops Arthur Selden Lloyd and Charles Kendall Gilbert of the Diocese of New York, Dr. Dubois S. Norris of Manhattan's Central Presbyterian Church,f District Attorney Thomas C. T. Grain, Lawyer & Mrs. Herbert Livingston Satterlee, William Jay Schieffelin, Lawyer Samuel Scoville Jr. of Philadelphia, Mrs. Robert E. Speer and some 1,000 more. To hear direct testimony, to see Buchmanism at first hand had they come. They found it exuberant, direct...
Fifteen people had ready a hot potato to drop into the hand of Mother Presbyterian Church last week. They were the special Commission on Marriage, Remarriage and Divorce; the hot potato was the section of their report, published last April (TIME, May 4), which recommended that Mother Church approve Birth Control for her children (see p. 32). In Pittsburgh last week were convening more than 900 Commissioners to the 143rd annual General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. To a hotel three miles from that part of Pittsburgh where delegates were registering the 15 hurried, there...
...Presbyterian Church in the U. S. S., Southern branch of the Church, held its general Assembly last week in Montreal, N. C., elected its first lay moderator since 1914: R. A. Dunn, president of Commercial National Bank in Charlotte, N._ C. The Presbyteries disapproved the Birth Control attitude of the Federal Council of Churches, and voted 5 to 2 for withdrawal from the Council...
...received another sizeable chunk of the gigantic income of Edward Stephen Harkness. Had Columbia not received it, the U. S. and New York State would have taken it as income taxes. The gift, Mr. Harkness indicated, was to be allocated to the great Medical Center which the university and Presbyterian Hospital have organized in upper Manhattan; and the Medical Center should use it for an Eye Institute.* Pathologists can describe diseased eye conditions. Ophthalmologists can treat and cure a great many of the diseases. But knowledge of the causes of some of those diseases, for example cataract, is hypothetical. Even...
...East. In 1934 (aged 70) she will retire from her presidency. Other mission examiners will be: Professor William Ernest Hocking of Harvard (chairman); President Clarence Augustus Barbour of Brown University; Dean Frederic Campbell Woodward of the University of Chicago; Dr. William Pierson Merrill of Manhattan's Brick Presbyterian Church; Professor Rufus Matthew Jones of Haverford College; Dean Henry Spencer Houghton of the University of Iowa College of Medicine; Dean Charles Phillips Emerson of the University of Indiana School of Medicine; President Arlo Ayres Brown of Drew University, Madison, N.J.; Dean Albert Russell Mann of New York State...