Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Scottish Presbyterian minister's son who became Archbishop of York at 44, of Canterbury at 64, he was a handsome, worldlywise, rosy-cheeked bachelor. During his Primacy he advocated interdenominational unity, a soft answer on remarriage after divorce - but not in the Simpson affair, of which he said: ". . . strange and sad it is that he [Edward] should have sought his happiness in a manner inconsistent with Christian principles of marriage...
...Presbyterian missionary, "Mr. Mac" came to the U.S. at ten, eight years later en tered Princeton's class of 1896. He was teaching English at Lake Forest College when Wilson invited him to Princeton...
...spokesman and one of the chief promoters of this serious scolding to the race-conscious. He breaks up a gang of junior neighborhood toughs who are about to beat up a kid vaguely described as belonging to the wrong church. Sinatra then delivers a lecture: without traditional U.S. tolerance, Presbyterian Colin Kelly and his Jewish bombardier, Meyer Levin, would never have become great U.S. heroes...
Reformer. Dr. Frank, as his students call him, inherited from his hardy Scottish ancestors a scrappy spirit, a canny business head, and a set of literal Presbyterian morals. A bachelor until he was 45, Dr. Frank neither smokes nor drinks. As an undergraduate at Chapel Hill he was a rugged little St. George, who led pious forays against the roughnecks whose doxies plied their trade in Chapel Hill graveyard. He was nonetheless twice elected president of his class. In 1917, after taking an M.A. at Columbia, Frank Graham became one of the runtiest marines on record...
...captain in Georgia wrote: "My wife being a staunch Southern Baptist and I a Presbyterian . . . can we get into religious work which involves no denomination...