Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Also given the Lasker Award, $500 and a gold medallion: Manhattan's Dr. Richard N. Pierson (a Presbyterian and father of four), for organizing, in 1930, the medical committee of the old Birth Control League, other activities...
...Sudan and the Belgian Congo, to put in practice a phonetic language-learning system she had been taught by her missionary father. With it, she thought she could get the hang of any native tongue in three or four days. Her mission (sponsored by the United and Southern Presbyterian Boards): to teach the natives how to teach their own languages to the missionaries...
...John Lewis, 73-year-old Presbyterian clergyman who last winter burned his 77-year-old Milwaukee church because he wanted a new one, was pardoned by Wisconsin's Governor Rennebohm after twelve weeks of a one-to-five-year sentence...
...friends felt an urge to do something special, they wanted to come closer to the spiritual meaning of Christ's birthday. They decided to meet at 7:15 every morning-men only-for half an hour's devotion in the grey stone Presbyterian Church. Perhaps 50 or so might show up, they thought...
...Audubon, N J., Mrs. Myrtle S. Lewis defied a notice from her landlord to vacate a six-room house. Landlord David C. Lang then removed the roof. But the First Presbyterian Church Men's Club started building Mrs. Lewis a new roof. Despite a risk of prosecution for trespassing, the Men's Club remained firm in its "belief that all people should have roofs over their heads...