Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proposed an organization of former pumpers. To his amazement, he was flooded by enthusiastic letters. Pumper Affleck wrote first, enclosing a check for 35?-his weekly stipend at pumping-as proposed membership fee. U. S. Senator James Couzens demanded to join; for two years he had pumped at the Presbyterian Church of Chatham, Ont. for $5 a year. Third charter member was Julius Rosenwald (now Grand Quint of the Chicago Loft) who shrewdly earned 25? a Sunday for labor at the First Presbyterian Church of Springfield, Ill. (not at the temple attended by his parents). At last year...
Engagement Denied.By Elisabeth Morrow, kindergarten teacher, eldest daughter ofU. S. Senator Dwight Whitney Morrow, once reported engaged to Charles Augustus Lindbergh* and Rev. Clyde H. Roddy, widower, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of North Arlington, N. J. (ten miles from the Morrow home...
...students-she took a train for Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat on the Riviera. There, at her daughter Lady Ward's Villa Rosemary, the cold grew worse. Bronchial complications set in; her heart became affected. Dr. Robert Louis Levy, chief of the cardiac department of New York's Presbyterian Medical Center, was summoned by plane from Paris, but oxygen and his skill were no match for pneumonia and an aged heart. When Ambassador Edge, at the personal request of President Hoover, telephoned Cap Ferrat next morning he was told that Mrs. Reid had died quietly ten minutes before...
...widest possible publicity for the purpose of invoking discussion and criticism. . . ." Birth Control- As did the Lambeth Conference (Anglican, Episcopal) last year and the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America last month, so last week did the Special Commission on Marriage, Divorce and Remarriage of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. report its approval of Birth Control. To incorporate this approval in the Confession of Faith would require polling the 295 U. S. Presbyteries. The Special Commission urges the Church's General Assembly, which meets this month in Pittsburgh, to have a committee consider...
Biggest loss of members was suffered by the Methodist Episcopal Church: 43,211 during the year. Other losses: Oriental Orthodox, 37,200; Presbyterian, 22,763; Disciples of Christ, 18,567; Unitarian...