Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shenanigans, Democrat Glen Taylor is no fool. The son of a Presbyterian minister, he got little formal education, made up for it by wolfing every volume on social and economic matters he could lay his hands on. He herded sheep for a while, for several years made a living as a tent-show cowboy in a Western stock company...
...Atlantic City, N.J., the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern) disclosed that 12,000 new members had been added to its rolls during the last five months. These are the first fruits of the "New Life Movement," in which Presbyterians have set themselves a three-year goal of 1,000,000 new members and 300 new churches. During 1948, more than 100,000 Presbyterian laymen, will be recruited and trained as evangelists...
...picked the dress to have "something old"-she had bought it a week before. Her stockings were "something new," her handkerchief "borrowed" and her orchid "blue." Rockefeller wore a tan gabardine suit. His voice sank as he made the responses. Bobo answered clearly; the Presbyterian minister omitted the word "obey...
Curly-haired young Ye Yun Ho, just out of Korea's Presbyterian Theological Seminary, went for a walk last summer beside the great River Han. On the broad flats where U.S. Army trucks dump the city of Seoul's garbage, Ye stopped to watch a swarming tangle of noisy, ragged small fry clawing over the piled-up refuse. The urchins were looking for any scrap of coal or tin or paper that could possibly be sold. For a long time Ye watched them...
...Presbyterian Ye calculates that he needs approximately $100 more to finish his dump-heap church. Last week the windows were glazed at last, and Ye and his flock of young Christian scavengers were praying hard for a new improvement-a floor to cover the frozen ground. But Ye Yun Ho was also thinking ahead...