Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slowly gathering protest of Southern Protestants against racial segregation last week was added the most powerful voice yet to be heard-the 830,000-member Southern branch of the Presbyterian Church. In a five-day conference at Birmingham, the 97th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. drafted a sharply worded statement condemning discrimination in the schools, defending Koinonia, the besieged interracial community at Americus, Ga. (TIME, April 29), and scourging the Ku Klux Klan and White Citizens' Councils...
There was disagreement among the 475 Presbyterian delegates on the segregation issue, but when a minority report was offered, suggesting that racial problems be referred to member parishes, it was turned down. Most of the delegates left the assembly in the militant mood of Dr. Edward D. Grant, director of institutions for the state of Louisiana. Said Grant: "Pity the church that keeps silent and looks the other way in a day like ours...
John Jay Hopkins, a handsome, debonair son of a Presbyterian minister, provided the push and brilliance that built General Dynamics Corp. (1956 sales: $1 billion) into one of the postwar era's biggest industrial combines. A lawyer, California-born John Hopkins joined Electric Boat, predecessor of General Dynamics, as a director in 1937, engineered the acquisition of Canadair Ltd., a Canadian aircraft manufacturing company, and then took over major corporations-manufacturing everything from telephone equipment to airplanes-until he had made the new complex the seventh largest defense contractor to the U.S. Government...
...rather close contest. Seven matches went to three sets, and all of them were won by Princeton. As Jack Barnaby puts it, "We were expecting to beat Princeton pretty handily, but actually if we were to beat them it would have had to have been in the gruelling Presbyterian fashion...
...light of comparative team scores this was hardly to be expected. Harvard had downed Presbyterian College, 6 to 3, after that same Presbyterian squad had beaten the Tigers by the same score...