Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Congratulations on your fine Jack Kennedy story. It is his "independent voting record" which sells me on the fact that he is the only American who can fill the shoes of Dwight Eisenhower. Who gives a damn whether he's a Democrat or Republican, Catholic or Presbyterian...
...Hagerty was ready with big news. "Let me end this in a hurry," he told newsmen. "The President is going to church today . . ." Just before 11 a.m., the President left the White House, rode a half-mile with the First Lady to attend Thanksgiving service at the National Presbyterian Church. They sat in a fifth-row pew on the left center side, joined in singing Faith of Our Fathers, 0 God, Beneath Thy Guiding Hand and Our Father's God, heard the pastor, the Rev. Edward L. R. Elson, offer a special prayer for the President...
...word statement was sparked by Alabama-born Dr. Herman L. Turner, pastor of Atlanta's Covenant Presbyterian Church, and written by an informal group of 30-odd ministers who agreed with him that "the time had arrived when we had to say something." Other Southern church groups have spoken out against segregation more or less directly, but the Georgia statement is far the firmest and the most widely based. Specifically, the Georgia ministers flatly condemned the oft-repeated threat by Governor Marvin Griffin et al. to abolish the public school system in order to circumvent the Supreme Court...
...John R. Baker of the Montgomery County (Md.) Unitarian Church was reading the Oct. 7 issue of TIME in the quiet of his study when his eyes came upon these words from Little Rock's Presbyterian Minister Dunbar H. Ogden Jr.: "This may be looked back upon by future historians as the turning point-for good -of race relations in this country. If the Supreme Court's interpretation of the Constitution can be made good in Little Rock, then it can be made good in Arkansas. If it can be made good in Arkansas, then eventually...
...week's end President Goheen emphasized that the university has not broken with Roman Catholicism, that it still recognizes the Aquinas Foundation. Presbyterian Goheen (who is married to a Catholic, and whose six children are being raised as Catholics) used an analogy from international diplomacy to explain Princeton's stand: "The university has withdrawn only the recognition of an individual. In the international field, this compares with a government declaring an individual persona non grata, but continuing to recognize the embassy...