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Word: presbyterian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unspectacular campaign. But his earnest speeches drew good crowds. He spoke out in favor of "the Southern way of life"; otherwise, he did not mention the subject of white supremacy. Instead, he talked about improving agricultural methods and backing the U.N. Said John Stennis, a teetotaler, a staunch Presbyterian and a family man (two children): "As a Senator ... I want to plow a straight furrow down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ELECTIONS: More than Magnolias | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

Released on ball after an arrest in the University town of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, several of the men fled to the home of the Presbyterian minister with two carloads of angry cab drivers behind them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tester of Supreme Court Ruling on Jim Crow Will Speak Here Tonight | 11/12/1947 | See Source »

Churches participating in the Council include the Jewish and eight Protestant denominations: Congregational, Episcopal, Friends, Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian, and Unitarian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Inter-Church Religion Talks Begin Tonight | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

...most significant event in ecclesiastical history since the Reformation." So said Presbyterian Patriarch Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Example in Unity | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

Died. James Gamble Rogers, 80, architect of the old school, whose modern masterwork is Manhattan's enormous Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, and whose quainter works include many college buildings (one Rogers building at Yale is Gothic on one side, Georgian on the other); in his Medical Center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 13, 1947 | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

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