Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Personality: Square and husky (5 ft. 8½ in., 170 Ibs.), he has not smoked in 15 years, drinks an occasional Scotch highball. He is so soft-spoken that acquaintances complain of difficulty in hearing him on the telephone. He is a Presbyterian. Married to Miriam Graim since 1918, he has one daughter, Gertrude, and one son, Arthur Jr. Though he formerly devoted much of his leisure to hunting, fishing and baseball, friends now say: "His only real hobby is politics. He adores...
...other languages, is so weighed down with archaic language that some sections make sense only to scholars. Last week a new translation of the New Testament went on sale, advertised to make the Bible understandable "in a train, bus or streetcar." The translator: the Rev. Tomio Muto, a Presbyterian minister and a former Tokyo judge, who was one of Tojo's leading propaganda writers during World...
Family & Early Years: He was born in the Washington, D.C. home of his maternal grandfather, John Watson Foster, veteran diplomat who was President Benjamin Harrison's Secretary of State (1892-93). Dulles' father, Presbyterian Pastor Allen Macy Dulles of Watertown, N.Y., wanted eldest son John to follow the ministry, but grandfather Foster swayed the boy to international law and diplomacy, sending him to Switzerland for six months to study French, a few years later taking him along to an international conference at The Hague. Dulles was valedictorian of the Princeton class of 1908. He spent a year...
Personality: Cagey before committing himself on anything, no backslapper, but easy and humorous when with friends. Has an intuitive knack for picking good subordinates, but has been called thin-skinned to criticism. A Presbyterian, and a great joiner (American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Military Order of the Purple Heart, Shriners, Knights Templar, Elks, Eagles, Kiwanis, the Capital Card Club, etc.). Loves riding and campaigning on horseback; in parades, he exchanges his conservative suits for a white, gaily embroidered cowboy costume and ten-gallon hat. Married to Mabel Hill, whom he met in his college days; two daughters, both married...
Fundamental to the Davidson concept of general education is the school's connection with the Presbyterian Church. Although the founders of the college proposed "To educate youth of all classes without any regard to the distinction of religious denominations, and thereby to promote the more general diffusion of knowledge and virtue," the student body of Davidson today is half Presbyterian, and religious education plays a major part in the Davidson scheme of things...