Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Family Circle. At 10:25 the guests hushed as Ike and Mamie, just back from morning service at the National Presbyterian Church, slipped into the East Room and took their places beside Dick and Pat Nixon. Ike and Dick both wore short morning coats and striped trousers; Mamie wore a black taffeta dress, and Pat a two-piece green wool suit. At 10:26 a nonfamily guest, California's Senator Bill Knowland, stepped forward and administered the vice-presidential oath to Dick Nixon, who swore fealty to the Constitution with his hand resting upon a Bible that had been...
...Princeton's football team, won the John Prentiss Poe Memorial cup, the highest honor Princeton can bestow on a varsity football player. An honor student in philosophy, he was vice president of his class, president of his eating club, Cap and Gown, president of the Westminster Foundation, Presbyterian religious meeting group...
More puzzling than the bad grades was the fact that John, in Chicago a steadfast member of the Presbyterian Church choir, was getting a reputation for being a big and wild spender. He shoveled money around like snow, ostentatiously picked up the tab at parties and restaurants, jazzed around town in a new $3,500 Oldsmobile convertible. When his friends asked him where he was getting all his cash, John always brightly shot back that old gag, "I robbed a bank." It was great for laughs...
...generally of economic aid to see Europe through the oil crisis, and of "burying past discords." In private conferences, first with Pineau, then with Lloyd. Dulles assured them of U.S. backing for quick clearance of the Suez Canal. At the opening session Dulles lectured the assembled ministers like a Presbyterian elder, pointing out that morality is the real binding force of the Western alliance. With pointed reference to Britain and France, he said that maintenance of moral pressure was a vital factor in bringing about the disintegration of the Soviet-Chinese system...
...Presbyterian doctor-missionary, Goheen grew up in India, got his first taste of U.S. education when he entered Lawrenceville as a junior in 1934. Two years later, dropping him off at Princeton, his parents told his freshman adviser: "We've got. to return to India. Please look after this boy." Little care was needed. Goheen made both the varsity soccer team and Phi Beta Kappa. After a year of graduate study, he carried the habit of success into the Army, rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Ist Cavalry Division in the Pacific...