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...Avenue, Mulberry Street and thereabouts. In the '305-third decade of his reign-Ed Crump continued to let Memphis go its primrose way. Memphis was sinful, all right, but it was never loud and raw about it. Memphis was the kind of town where the rich, old Second Presbyterian Church could transact its godly business within bottle's throw of a brothel, a saloon, a gambling joint and the Negroes' steamy Beale Street...
...officially the big U. S. churches are not yet so sure of their ground. Baptists and Unitarians got through their spring assemblies without perceptibly committing themselves. Last week the Presbyterians, holding general assembly in Rochester, N. Y., condemned aggressors, but declined to throw their church's "moral and economic weight" against Europe's present aggressors, spoke up for the rights of Presbyterian conscientious objectors...
...peace prayers. ∧ In Chicago, Dr. Harold Washington Ruopp (non denominational) decided not to talk on war before his big congregation in Orchestra Hall (home of Chicago Symphony) last week. Each new headline, declared he, changes his mind. In Jefferson City, Mo., the Rev. A. B. Jackson (Presbyterian) admitted: "I realize the Allies are fighting our fight for us. But we ought not to enter the European...
Westminster College (enrollment: 317), an old Presbyterian institution, is politically-conscious beyond all proportion to its size. Its president is Dr. Franc Lewis ("Bullet") McCluer, a 1932 Presidential elector for Franklin Roosevelt. Since last fall he has welcomed to the college as speakers Republican Chairman John Hamilton, two Presidential hopefuls-James A. Farley and Paul V. McNutt. Also scheduled to speak there are Candidates Thomas Dewey, Robert A. Taft...
...trade to a standstill, and the Pews became farmers. In 1859 they got in on Pennsylvania's first oil boom, struck it rich, stayed that way. Joseph Pew Sr. bought up oil properties right & left, moved to Philadelphia, died there in 1912, founder of Sun Oil Co., a Presbyterian bulwark, philanthropist, multimillionaire...