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That gave ambitious Hubert Humphrey a base to work from. He took a job teaching politics at St. Paul's Presbyterian Macalester College, got a part-time job as a radio commentator (WTCN) and waited. In 1945, he was elected mayor of Minneapolis by the largest plurality in the city's history...
...America's postwar seminary students are a mature and serious lot. They are also numerous: U.S. Protestant seminarians rose from 13,000 in 1938 to 24,000 in 1947, Roman Catholics from 16,000 to 23,000, and Jews from 900 to 2,000. At McCormick, which is Presbyterian, their average age is 28. Ten years...
Latest news from the psychosomatic front: many cases of trench mouth and inflammation of the gums start out as inflamed emotions. Said Research Assistant Sol J. Ewen of Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center: dentists should open up a little wider, get a mouthful of psychiatry...
...From China, from an anonymous Chinese Christian businessman, came a gift of $1,000,000 to the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. This, the largest cash donation ever received by the board from a living donor, was to be used to build a settlement for retired Presbyterian missionaries. The gift, said its modest donor, was "in gratitude to God for my Christian education and life, and in appreciation of the service your missionaries have given China...
Student delegations from colleges in the New England area will deal with the theme "The Student and the Task of the Church" from the viewpoint of the following religious groups: YMCA, YWCA, Student Volunteer Movement, College Chapel and Administration Association, and the Baptist, Congregational, Episcopal, Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian, and Unitarian Churches...