Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...titleholder plans to complete his undergraduate career in three years and take his M.A. in classical languages the next winter. He expects to follow his father, Presbyterian minister in Philadelphia, editor of the religious monthly "Revelation," and author of five books, in the ministry...
...Postponed the concordat proposed in 1937 to unite the Episcopalian and Presbyterian Churches. Nevertheless, for the first time at a General Convention, the Episcopalians held a joint mass meeting with Presbyterians. Cried the Presbyterians' Moderator, Dr. William Lindsay Young (a fraternal delegate at the convention): "My earnest prayer tonight is that I may live to stand before you some time and address, not your church, not my church, but our church...
...Ulster village of Donaghreagh in some sweet pre-Hitlerian period, the plot poses the daughter of a greengrocer with the question of choosing between a young Presbyterian minister and a would-be competitor of her father...
...Just as neither Franklin Roosevelt nor Wendell Willkie wants anti-Semite votes, so TIME wants no readers who cultivate race hatreds. It so happens that Lord Beaverbrook-once Max Aitken of New Brunswick-is no Jew but the son and grandson of Presbyterian ministers and descended of a long line of Presbyterians...
Last month H. H. Lady Sylvia, the 56-year-old white Ranee of Sarawak, arriving in Canada, appalled her native Britain by denouncing its child evacuees as "young riffraff of England." Last week she appeared at Manhattan's Presbyterian Hospital, gave a pint of her blue blood to Britain, did not stipulate any particular donee...