Word: presbyterianism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...home State of durable ex-Senator Jim Watson gave the Senate another notable orator last week-this time a Democrat: balding, 48-year-old Samuel Dillon Jackson, ex-State Attorney General of Indiana, ex-prosecuting attorney, longtime elder in Fort Wayne's Presbyterian Church, active member of the Scottish Rite. Governor Henry F. Schricker appointed him to fill the unexpired term of the late Frederick Van Nuys (see p. 82).* Said Senator Jackson: "I will support the President...
...Christian Beacon, fundamentalist weekly of the Bible Presbyterian Church,* had a big story last week and spread it over four of its eight pages. The story: a U.S. Navy chaplain had resigned rather than approve liquor for sailors or give talks on venereal disease...
...Christian Beacon found the matter indicative of "a most deplorable and desperate condition" in the Navy. The Beacon's editor, the Rev. Carl Mc-Intire, took the occasion to wind up with a slap at Chief of Naval Chaplains Robert D. Workman, "who is a minister of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. and who . . . has set out to produce a chaplaincy corps in the Navy which is streamlined according to his own ideas. . . . This information is brought with the one desire of helping to correct the condition, and that we shall have a man at the head...
...fundamentalist offshoot of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Another offshoot: The Orthodox Presbyterian Church. Difference: Bible Presbyterians ban all liquor; Orthodox Presbyterians permit beer and wine...
Packed with such relationships between man and his bodily ailments is Human Constitution in Clinical Medicine (Hoeber; $3.50), by Dr. George Draper, Anthropologist C. Wesley Dupertuis and Dr. John Lyon Caughey Jr. of Manhattan's Presbyterian Hospital.* Material for the book was gathered from the hospital's unique Constitution Clinic, founded in 1916. To find its facts the clinic uses Sheldon's system of calculating body build (TIME, July 15, 1940), rates each patient for androgyny (male and female characteristics), photographs patients nude (of 2,500, only four have refused), performs needed laboratory tests and interviews each...