Word: presbyterianism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This has done them little good in Hungary where their schools have been nationalized. Lutheran Bishop Lajos Ordass, who tried to oppose the Communists, is in prison on a phony black-marketing charge. Ferenc Nagy, a leading Presbyterian who as Premier tried to collaborate with the Communists, was forced to flee the country...
First United Presbyterian Church...
...native Coatbridge, Scotland. He came to the U.S. in 1927, dug ditches, wrestled iron castings in a New Jersey foundry. But Marshall really wanted to be a minister, finally studied three years at Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Ga. In 1937 he became pastor of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington. Ten years later he became Senate chaplain of the Republican 80th Congress, was re-elected in the Democratic 81st...
Last week, Baby Michael Goldstein and his sister Karen, 2½, were in the Ophthalmological Institute of Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center; they had the same disease. Karen had one eye removed; X-ray treatments were begun to try to save the other eye. Baby Michael, eleven months old, lost both eyes...
Grab-Bag Families. The statement of one urban housewife reflects the city's blurring of denominational lines: "'My first change was from the Catholic church to an Episcopal . . . because there was no Catholic church in the community . . . My husband was formerly Presbyterian. When we moved to M we wanted to go to some church and we simply started walking down the street till we came to one. It turned out to be the Lutheran church. We ... finally joined and we like it very much . . . Our children have been baptized in the Lutheran church...