Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reception on the air base, Ike Eisenhower gave the sermon his endorsement, and told a little about his own taste in preaching: "Mamie and I were having an argument about what denomination the chaplain belonged to. Mamie thought he was an Episcopalian. I knew he wasn't a Presbyterian when he said 'trespasses' instead of 'debts' in the Lord's Prayer. But I knew he wasn't an Episcopalian. They are too darn dignified. I like to be enthusiastic...
...Dean Marshal L. Scott of the Presbyterian Institute of Industrial Relations started a ministers-in-industry course in Pittsburgh, and brought it last year to the McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago. Since Dean Scott's course began, similar programs have been organized in Boston, New Haven and San Anselmo, Calif...
...when Massachusetts-born Dr. Smith was chief of education (63 schools, colleges and seminaries) and publications for the American Baptists, he found Sunday-school enrollments sadly sagging. He discovered that the three denominations staging the strongest Sunday-school comeback (Southern Baptist. Presbyterian and Methodist) all had summer assemblies at which youth leaders and ministers could meet. Deciding that his own denomination should have one as well, he spent two years scouring Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana for the proper setting. What he found was the 1,100-acre estate of Victor F. Lawson, publisher of the Chicago Daily News, converted...
...Sunday, Ike went to 8:30 a.m. services at the neighborhood Corona Presbyterian Church, walking the 2½ blocks from Mrs Doud's home. Just before he started, Ike noticed in Denver's Rocky Mountain News a story about six-year-old Paul Haley, who is slowly dying of cancer...
Next, the small but pivotal Liberal Party named the Rev. James H. Robinson, 46, a popular Presbyterian pastor whose round-the-world trip in 1951 as a missionary ambassador at large (TIME, April 28, 1952) had a highly effective, if unofficial, propaganda value for the U.S. This left the Tammany Democrats out on a limb with a non-Negro candidate. Assemblyman Herman Katz of Manhattan. After some hurried conferences, Katz withdrew...