Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General strode inside. He poked through jammed corridors and rooms, grimly inspected the ravages of slow star vation. He talked with Dr. Theodore Stevenson. Presbyterian medical mission ary who had been the camp doctor. Dr. Stevenson had been jailed by the Japs be cause he refused to change death certifi cates on which he had boldly stated the contributing cause of death as "malnutrition." To BiIibid. As General MacArthur left Santo Tomas, maimed veterans hobbled toward him to salute, and some to touch his uniform. Women embraced him; one kissed him on the cheek. He went on to Bilibid. There...
...democracy. . . . We insist that a church which would link its destiny to that of the state must be kept at arm's length by the state." The statement was made public by Kenneth Leslie, left-wing editor of The Protestant. Among its signers: Dr. John A. Mackay (Presbyterian), of Princeton Theological Seminary; Bishop Francis J. McConnell (Methodist); Dr. Edwin Mc-Neill Poteat (Baptist), of Colgate-Rochester Divinity School...
...pastor, the Rev. James Carroll Wright, 46, of Akron's Westminster Presbyterian Church, knew that others must be similarly bothered; he answered the soldier's question in a letter addressed to all 82 of his parishioners in service. Last week the church made his answer public...
...When the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. elected its new moderator (an annual affair) last May, many of its 2,090,000 members knew very little about the new incumbent. Dr. Roy Ewing Vale, 59, was a relatively obscure Indianapolis pastor, with a reputation for somewhat meek piety...
...Wooster, mother of three sons (all in Who's Who) and one daughter, who among them hold 31 college and university degrees (Karl, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Arthur, University of Chicago's Nobel Prize physicist; Wilson, Washington, D.C., econonist and lumber executive; and Mary Rice, Presbyterian missionary); in Wooster, Ohio. Of his mother's formula for family success, Son Wilson once observed: "She depended on the Bible, soap and castor...