Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Andrew's Presbyterian Church...
Karamu House's directors are an extraordinary pair named Russell and Rowens Jelliffe. They went to Oberlin College together, did social work in Chicago, went to the "Roaring Third" in 1915 at the invitation of Cleveland's Second Presbyterian Church. Taking over an abandoned funeral parlor, they invited in the neighborhood youngsters, white and black, for games and dancing. They soon decided that 1) most Negroes are born artists, 2) in their art lies Negroes' best chance for winning a secure place in U. S. society...
...Presbyterian. Dr. William Lindsay Young, Moderator: "The clergy generally are not as pacifistic as they were a year ago. . . . My personal view, which I believe is shared by most clergymen, is that . . . aid to England is aid to ourselves. ... It is self-preservation...
...tall, hearty man of military bearing is Sir Keith Murdoch, now 54. He lives in a big U. S. Colonial home outside Melbourne, owns a couple of sheep stations (ranches), collects paintings, silver, glass, Chinese ceramics. Born in Melbourne, son of a Presbyterian minister, Murdoch (not knighted till 1933) was doing pretty well as manager of a press cable service when he set out as a correspondent for the war in 1915. But he got his real start as an Empire bigwig when he landed in Britain, handed Lloyd George a confidential report on conditions in Gallipoli. Soon...
...part of town on the Main Line, had a law practice of sinecures tossed his way by friendly bankers and fellow Academy and Penn men. He founded the Juristic Society, an exclusive little legal and social group. Religious, he became a deacon and trustee of Germantown's Second Presbyterian Church...