Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...model 16-year-old. "Of our four children, Chrissy was the one who could make a friend," said her father, tall, greying Fred Nystrom, co-founder and vice president of a construction machinery firm. "Whatever she does, she does well," added the pastor of Mount Vernon's First Presbyterian Church, who supervised Christine's work as president of the interchurch Youth Council. "A lovely, attractive girl, and always dependable," said the dean of girls at A. B. Davis High School, where Christine was honor student, cheerleader and senior class marshal. "You could call her well-stacked...
...with the three-story name," railed at a clergyman-critic as a "monstrous bag of fetid wind," adding: "The man who can find intellectual food in [his] sermons could acquire a case of delirium tremens by drinking the froth out of a pop bottle." The son of a Presbyterian minister, he rang some of his angriest cadences against anti-Catholic bigots, called them "equal to any crime requiring no physical courage...
Your Dec. 2 report on the French Cameroons called "Jungle Terror" conveys an erroneous picture of the situation. I should like to protest against your characterization of myself as "Red-trained." I am not a Communist, but a Presbyterian, and my desire is simply to see my country free and united. I also wish to protest against your calling our organization, the UPC [Union of the Peoples of the Cameroons], Communist, and against your calling our secretary-general, Mr. Ruben Um Nyobe, a Communist...
David Bronstein moved to Chicago, and his wife took in sewing to support him while he graduated from the Moody Bible Institute in 1916 and the McCormick Theological Seminary in 1919 as an ordained Presbyterian minister. The Presbyterian Church set him to doing missionary work among the Jews. But Bronstein considers his a separate church and in no way a branch of Presbyterianism...
Flyleaf. In Columbus. Ohio, a thief broke into the office of the Northminster Presbyterian Church, pocketed $10.40 from a desk drawer, left a note: "God Bliss You. I'm Sorry But The World...