Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That night, the pilgrims paraded to Constitution Hall for a rally. Anti-Catholic literature was passed out. The Rev. Carl Mclntire, a deposed minister of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., now pastor of his own "Bible Presbyterian Church" of Collingswood, N.J., said: "Communism is an enemy; we are all against it. But we have another enemy too, older, shrewder. It is Roman Catholicism and its bid for world power. In the U.S., it is Spellmanism...
...Governor Stevenson was born a Democrat, his inheritance includes some stoutly Republican forebears. "If it's true that politics is the art of compromise," he says, "I've had a good start; my mother was a Republican and a Unitarian, my father was a Democrat and a Presbyterian. I ended up in his party and her church...
...public to attend holiday dedication services. The first night, a crowd massed before the chapel and threw stones through the windows. Missionary Riddell telephoned both the police and the U.S. embassy for help. Through police response was sluggish, the embassy's was not. Ambassador Capus M. Waynick, a Presbyterian from North Carolina, dashed right over in person, stalked past the mob, told Riddell to go on with his service, and stayed himself till the last Amen...
...York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C. is proud that its congregation put up the first building for Protestant worship in the young capital city. It is proud that seven Presidents of the U.S.† worshiped there. It is proud of its great growth during the years of World War II, when the late Peter Marshall,- chaplain of the U.S. Senate, was pastor. When the congregation decided after the war to build a larger church, they decided to buck the trend toward residential areas and stay right where they were, about five minutes' walk from the White House...
...GEORGE W. WALKER Walden Presbyterian Church Buffalo