Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fantastic crime, the Chinatowns of San Francisco, New York City, Boston, Chicago have had their splendor wiped away by police cleanup squads during a decade. Modern Chinatowns stand revealed as parts of the surrounding slums. Down their narrow streets busloads of thrill seekers trudge, disappointedly viewing Christian missions, Presbyterian churches, sack-suited U. S. Chinese. Only in curio-shops and such tourist centres do the sightseers glimpse a tawdry replica of the surroundings in which mandarins once paraded their gorgeous costumes on Chinese festival-days, in which painted, gold-spangled girls were sold for hundreds of dollars, in which wide...
...infants, exchanged them, wept. When Mr. Watkins returned home from a baseball game he exclaimed: "They took advantage of my wife. . . . I'll sue." The now Watkins baby had been given a Roman Catholic baptism as George Edward Bamberger, the now Bamberger child had been given a Presbyterian christening as Charles Evans Watkins...
...oldest, loudest, fiercest foes. He claims to have visited President Hoover a year ago last spring and warned him of impending crisis in the securities' markets. In 1909 he arranged to buy Ford Motor Co. for $8,000,000 but his bankers were afraid. He is a stanch Presbyterian, stanch Republican. He shuns jewelry but is famed for his tremendous long-distance telephone bills. Wherever he goes he carries a set of checkers. Said the Paris Comet of him last year: "He has served both God and Mammon without ever being able to distinguish which was which...
Conspicuously absent was Winona Lake's most famed citizen, Presbyterian Evangelist William Ashley Sunday, 66. In recent years Mr. Sunday's vigor has diminished. He no longer exhorts as dramatically as in his heyday just after the War. Early last week he addressed the Miami Valley Chautauqua near Dayton, Ohio. Thence he hastened, past Winona Lake, to another of his homes in Hood River Valley...
...Korea, Mexico and Brazil the National Methodist churches will be in "competition" with national Presbyterian churches. The Presbyterians have been the most active of U. S. denominations in nationalizing their missions. There are Presbyterian churches of Persia, India and China. In China this church per se is nominal. It has only 17,000 communicants. There is a reason. Some years ago most Chinese Presbyterians decided to merge with other Protestants in China to form the Church of Christ in China (communicants now 120,000). Dissident Presbyterians keep up the old church organization. Presbyterians are the most potent Protestants in China...