Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Presbyterian School...
...these uncertain times, are seeking security . . . He said there is no better security than belief in the story he had just finished telling ... I left the service feeling that, in a time of great uncertainty, here was a man who was certain." Weeks later, Houston's leading Presbyterian minister, the Rev. Charles King, devoted his own sermon to Soldier Reed's text...
...only son, Bob Jr., president in 1941, crusty Bob Ingalls Sr.* continued his one-man rule, never let his son make much of a mark for himself. In 1948 Bob Jr. divorced his wife and married Jane Sevier Smith, a widow with two children. His father, a stern Presbyterian who did not believe in divorce, fired him from his $45,000-a-year...
Democratic Presidential Candidate Adlai Stevenson sat and listened to a stout defense of himself from the pulpit of the Springfield, Ill. Presbyterian Church. Departing from the Scripture to comment on current events, the Rev. Richard Graebel thundered that Republican Senator Everett Dirksen's statement that Stevenson was the worst Illinois governor of the 20th century was "a blatant lie." Said Pastor Graebel later: he was not aware that the governor was in his church...
...Labor M.P. crouching naked in a willow tree, with 40 Scottish housewives prancing below and screeching: "Come doon, ye mangy tod, and I'll buff your beef!"? Why does a stern Presbyterian minister stand by waving a two-handed sword and bellowing: "There is a harvest still, a harvest of thistles and of tares, for the sword of Gideon...