Word: presbyterianism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ambassador to Russia Joseph Edward Davies slipped on a rug in his Washington apartment, wrenched his back, had Secretary of State Cordell Hull receive for him an honorary Doctorate of Laws from Presbyterian College (Clinton...
Died. Nathan Lynn Bachman, 58, Tennessee's junior Democratic Senator, appointed in 1933 when Cordell Hull was drafted for the Cabinet and twice reelected, onetime (1918-24) Associate Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court; of heart disease; in Washington. He played football nine seasons at Southwestern (Presbyterian), Washington & Lee and Central universities, joked that he had been expelled from all three...
Preston Bradley, son of a blacksmith of Linden, Mich., preached his first sermon at 15, studied law and obtained a D. C. L. degree, then returned to the church as a Presbyterian student pastor. Before he even got around to studying theology, Preston Bradley withdrew from the Presbyterian Church, began preaching independently, set up Peoples Church as an "all-sectarian" group in a Chicago theatre. By 1926, when he built a $750,000 church on the North Side, Dr. Bradley had found Unitarianism to his taste, affiliated his congregation with the American Unitarian Association. Peoples Churchgoers contribute...
...Church. Secretary of State of Iowa is Dr. Robert Enlow O'Brian, Methodist minister and onetime president of Morningside College in Sioux City. Currently many a New Jersey Republican favors, as lis next gubernatorial candidate, Rev. Lester Harrison Clee, State Senator and pastor of Newark's Second Presbyterian Church...
...founded in 1770 and under city control since 1837, is in point of age Louisville's chief rival. The University of Akron (1913) was once a Universalist college. The Municipal Uni versity of Omaha (1931) was founded as a non-sectarian institution by Rev. Daniel Jenkins, a Presbyterian minister, for Omahans who did not want to go to Jesuit Creighton University. The other municipal universities had various origins. The University of the City of Toledo grew out of a manual training school whose funds were turned over to the city in 1884. Big and distinguished University of Cincinnati...