Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Archbishop Joseph Francis Rummel has threatened to invoke the extreme power of excommunication to stem Catholic opposition to integration, newspaper ads appeared recently to announce a state-chartered Association of Catholic Laymen (annual dues, $1 or more), organized to fight the strong integrationism of the church. Mississippi's Presbyterian Synod has directly challenged the antisegregationist resolution of the Southern Presbyterians' 94th General Assembly. The "matter of segregation," said the synod, is a "highly controversial political issue...
...group's leader, the Rev. Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, president of the National Council and stated clerk of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., went into more revealing detail last week in a series of three articles for the Associated Press. Writing for himself only, Dr. Blake showed he had a good journalist's eye, though it was, he confessed, "almost permanently closed against klieg lights and flashbulbs...
...faced the segregation problem, came to a personal conclusion that "the Supreme Court's opinions are the law of the land." (West Virginia has moved as rapidly toward integration as any border state.) Later Marland switched Laird to the state tax commission. The new Senator is a Presbyterian, a Lion, a Mason and an American Legionnaire (eligibility: a six-month Navy hitch in World War II during which he rose to seaman second class before receiving a medical discharge...
...church meeting in home town Portland, Ore., Dr. Paul S. Wright, 60, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., confided to assembled elders that he will marry Christian Education Worker Mary McDowell, 27, in June. A December and May romance? Said Widower Wright: "You can't tell the split second you fall in love . . . We decided through earnest prayer to get married...
...fashion, joining his palms before his face and bowing his head. Presiding over a gathering of 15,000 on the grounds of New Delhi's Y.M.C.A. was an Indian Christian Princess, Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, who in 1930 renounced her father's palace in Lucknow, became a Christian (Presbyterian), and is now India's Minister of Health. "Billy Graham," she said, "is one of those rare jewels who tread this earth periodically and draw, by their lives and teaching, millions of others closer...