Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then peppery Kenneth Wherry, majority whip, nominated the Rev. Peter Marshall, powerful-speaking Scotsman, pastor of the capital's New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, as the new Senate chaplain...
...Presbyterian Church...
National Vespers (Sun. 2:30 p.m., ABC). The program's first sermon by the Rev. Dr. John Sutherland Bonnell, pastor of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, succeeding the Rev. Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick...
...These two communions have a common origin, common articles of religion, a comparable form of government. That is a good deal. We could hardly ask for more as a basis of union. Some nine years ago, at the same time that the Episcopalians made overtures to the Presbyterian Church, a similar invitation was extended to the Methodists. Since the three branches of Methodism were busy consummating their own union, it seemed wise to postpone action. . . . But now that the Methodists are happily unified there can be no further reason for delay...
...Scotia who combined preaching and journalism for 25 years before he became a Republican Representative from New Jersey in 1925. ¶John Foster Dulles, 58, stoop-shouldered senior partner of Sullivan & Cromwell, one of the U.S.'s most puissant law firms, veteran of innumerable international congresses, No. 1 Presbyterian layman, and chairman of the Commission for a Just & Durable Peace of the Federal Council of Churches. ¶Adlai Ewing Stevenson, 46, able Illinois lawyer, grandson of Democratic Vice President Adlai ("The Headsman") Stevenson (who distinguished himself by discreetly purging some 40,000 Republican postmasters when Grover Cleveland became President...