Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lyons (1859-65), who took the hot blast of Northern resentment at British help to the South. ¶ James Bryce (1907-13), who was well known in the U.S., before he became Ambassador, for his great book The American Commonwealth. Bryce was widely respected; when he attended the Old Presbyterian Church in Washington he was always escorted to Abraham Lincoln's pew. ¶ Sir Cecil Spring Rice (1913-18), the World War I Ambassador, so supercautious that he dared make only one public speech in his five years in the U.S. ¶ Rufus Isaacs, Lord Reading...
...Presbyterian minister in upstate New York and the grandson of Benjamin Harrison's Secretary of State (who took him to The Hague Peace Conference in 1907), John Foster Dulles had long found his deepest interests in the church and the law. He attended the Paris peace talks of 1919, then settled back to a lifetime career in Manhattan's international law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell. He also became a driving force in the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. But when the Republicans urged him to make the race against the Democrats' 71-year...
...young missionary, newly arrived in India, had hoped to bring the Gospel to some remote village. Instead, the Northern Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions sent him to Allahabad Christian College, 70 miles from Benares, and there he got his orders. "Higginbottom," said the principal, "you will have to teach economics." Higginbottom knew little of economics, but he did as he was told. He also did as he was told when the principal said: "The new missionary always has charge of the leper colony. Higginbottom, that is your job now." Thus, at the turn of the century, Sam Higginbottom began...
Last spring, a young couple from New Orleans flew into New York City with twin boys who were already seven months old. Andrew Hoffmann and his pretty blonde wife thought both boys were blind, but at Presbyterian Hospital it was found that Dennis had some vision. On Kenneth, who had none, an ophthalmologist operated to remove part of the fibrous tissue. He believed that it was not the retina, but that the retina was shriveled and displaced. By last week, Dennis Hoffmann's vision was-improving slowly, but Kenneth was still sightless...
Schools supported by public taxes, she wrote, should be completely free of any private or religious control. She did not deny the contributions that "Catholic, Episcopal, Presbyterian, Methodist or whatever" schools might make to the community. But if a U.S. citizen wanted his children to have special denominational training, then he should pay for it and not expect the Government to. "The separation of church and state is extremely important to any of us," she concluded...