Word: presbyterianism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...craftsmen working full-time on jobs which at the moment include windows for Minneapolis, St. Louis and Louisville. He pays apprentices $12 a week, experienced artists as much as $85, mechanics according to the union scale, which is $1 per hr. in Philadelphia. Like Lawrence Saint, he is a Presbyterian elder, recently persuaded the Presbytery of Philadelphia North to establish a committee of social action. He and Saint are good friends but he thinks Saint's life-long labors at making his own glass (TIME, July 20, 1936) are "all hooey." Mr. Willet buys the glass he uses from...
...Senate (1935-41), was unopposed. A party split made the Republican race more exciting. Backed by Governor Hoffman's once powerful Republican machine was State Senator Clifford R. Powell, whose campaign was run by Mrs. Powell. His opponent, also a State Senator was a Newark Presbyterian pastor, Lester Harrison Clee, who when returns were counted had won the nomination by 247,876 votes to Powell...
Before he descended from the pulpit of Newark's Second Presbyterian Church to go into politics, Dr. Clee had organized two of the largest adult Bible classes in the U. S. He became Speaker of the State House of Representatives, in 1935 forced repeal of a State sales tax for relief money. Macmillan will publish Dr. Glee's The Preacher in Politics this month. Stocky, eloquent, liberal in both his ecclesiastical and political opinions, Dr. Clee will campaign on a platform of clean government and economy. Whether or not he is elected Governor in November may depend largely...
...Baptist and the Methodist churches, the Episcopal Church does not go in much for the sort of homely activity represented by religious plays or pageants. The typical Episcopal vestryman, often a banker or substantial businessman, would feel queer in the false beard and cheesecloth garment which a small-town Presbyterian may wear with pleasure. Doubly notable, therefore, was an Episcopal pageant put on last week in Philadelphia's big Convention Hall-biggest show ever performed by U. S. Episcopalians, and designed to quicken Episcopal interest in missions. It was called The Drama of Missions to Spread Throughout the World...
...Maine. hates War, Fascism, deplores Capitalism, is on record for the Spanish Leftists. Next month when the Episcopal Church holds its triennial General Convention in Cincinnati, the C. L. I. D. plans to hold a sideshow series of meetings, with speeches by such people as Socialist Norman Thomas (a Presbyterian minister), the C. I. O.'s Homer Martin (onetime Baptist preacher), Howard ("Buck") Kester of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union (Baptist minister), Negro Lawrence Oxley of the U. S. Department of Labor, Roger Baldwin of the American Civil Liberties Union...