Word: presbyterianism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. William Wallace Atterbury, 69, onetime (1925-35) President of Pennsylvania R. R.; of apoplexy induced by arteriosclerosis; in Bryn Mawr, Pa. Son of a lawyer who turned Presbyterian preacher, young William, with a degree from Yale, started in the Pennsylvania's Altoona shops at 5¢ an hour. In 1917 he went to France when Pershing cabled Secretary Baker to send him "the ablest railroad man in the U. S.," was commissioned Brigadier General (admiring soldiers called him "General Attaboy"), set up a rail transport system that won him decorations from many an Allied government. An able handler and picker...
...Times. A plump, energetic spinster in her 50's, Miss McDowell loves her work. She regularly has 25 reporters assigned to cover Sunday sermons, bombards the city desk with memoranda urging additional coverage of religious events. Armed with a capacious handbag she personally reports important gatherings like the Presbyterian General Assembly-dear to her heart because she is devoutly of that faith. Indomitable Miss McDowell hates swearing, sends out a memorandum every New Year's Eve reminding the staff of the existence of the New York Times Pure Language League...
...kneel before the Sovereign Pontiff," Pope Pius XI. From one of her most useful Manhattan contacts, Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes, Miss McDowell begged a letter smoothing the way. She did not neglect to pray, both before and afterward, at the high altar of St. Patrick's Cathedral. How Presbyterian McDowell's prayers were answered she told last week in an account of her trip in the Catholic News. Excerpts...
...their zeal and all their drives, ministers of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. got only 65,147 new communicants in the year ending last March 31-31,822 fewer than the year before. The Presbyterian membership list stood at 1,959,923, a decline of 27,368 communicants. All this was reported last week by the church's Stated Clerk, Rev. Dr. Lewis Seymour Mudge...