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...from Bishop William Thomas Manning of the Diocese of New York, last week's meeting was held in the swank Hotel Plaza. Present as guests were Suffragan Bishops Arthur Selden Lloyd and Charles Kendall Gilbert of the Diocese of New York, Dr. Dubois S. Norris of Manhattan's Central Presbyterian Church,f District Attorney Thomas C. T. Grain, Lawyer & Mrs. Herbert Livingston Satterlee, William Jay Schieffelin, Lawyer Samuel Scoville Jr. of Philadelphia, Mrs. Robert E. Speer and some 1,000 more. To hear direct testimony, to see Buchmanism at first hand had they come. They found it exuberant, direct...
Fifteen people had ready a hot potato to drop into the hand of Mother Presbyterian Church last week. They were the special Commission on Marriage, Remarriage and Divorce; the hot potato was the section of their report, published last April (TIME, May 4), which recommended that Mother Church approve Birth Control for her children (see p. 32). In Pittsburgh last week were convening more than 900 Commissioners to the 143rd annual General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. To a hotel three miles from that part of Pittsburgh where delegates were registering the 15 hurried, there...
...Presbyterian Church in the U. S. S., Southern branch of the Church, held its general Assembly last week in Montreal, N. C., elected its first lay moderator since 1914: R. A. Dunn, president of Commercial National Bank in Charlotte, N._ C. The Presbyteries disapproved the Birth Control attitude of the Federal Council of Churches, and voted 5 to 2 for withdrawal from the Council...
...East. In 1934 (aged 70) she will retire from her presidency. Other mission examiners will be: Professor William Ernest Hocking of Harvard (chairman); President Clarence Augustus Barbour of Brown University; Dean Frederic Campbell Woodward of the University of Chicago; Dr. William Pierson Merrill of Manhattan's Brick Presbyterian Church; Professor Rufus Matthew Jones of Haverford College; Dean Henry Spencer Houghton of the University of Iowa College of Medicine; Dean Charles Phillips Emerson of the University of Indiana School of Medicine; President Arlo Ayres Brown of Drew University, Madison, N.J.; Dean Albert Russell Mann of New York State...
...proposed an organization of former pumpers. To his amazement, he was flooded by enthusiastic letters. Pumper Affleck wrote first, enclosing a check for 35?-his weekly stipend at pumping-as proposed membership fee. U. S. Senator James Couzens demanded to join; for two years he had pumped at the Presbyterian Church of Chatham, Ont. for $5 a year. Third charter member was Julius Rosenwald (now Grand Quint of the Chicago Loft) who shrewdly earned 25? a Sunday for labor at the First Presbyterian Church of Springfield, Ill. (not at the temple attended by his parents). At last year...