Word: presbyterians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opponents' own churches are not integrated, if integration is what they believe in. Only big ecclesiastical wheels in Little Rock last week dared go so far as to urge the reopening of schools on an integrated basis-Episcopal Bishop Robert R. Brown, Methodist Bishop Paul E. Martin, Presbyterian Minister Theodore B. Hay and Southern Baptist Dr. Dale Cowling, president of the Greater Little Rock Ministerial Alliance...
...keep segregationist passions aboil. The presence of federal marshals in Little Rock, he cried, is more serious than the presence last year of federal troops. The marshals "will be met in many situations with a cold fury that did not exist before." When a group of Arkansas' Presbyterian ministers protested the closing of Little Rock's four high schools (TIME, Sept. 22), Southern Baptist Faubus accused them of being leftists, "brainwashed by left-wingers and Communists." Not even a stern protest from Methodist clergymen could make him change his mind. He heated up the air waves...
...blessing and the announced aim of leasing the empty public schools to segregated-and state-subsidized-private schools. But it would be a long legal battle before such a scheme could ever work out. The school board tried to bridge the gap by starting TV classes. ("I wonder," snapped Presbyterian Minister T. B. Hay, "whether they will have a closed circuit for black faces.") Faubus even advanced the date of his referendum on segregated schools by one week to give the appearance of progress...
Most of the lawyers at the conference were much interested in problems of practical legal ethics, such as those set forth in a "dialogue address" between Chicago Attorney John Mulder (a Presbyterian) and Karl Olsson. minister (Evangelical Covenant Church) and professor of church history at North Park Theological Seminary. Lawyer Mulder submitted a case history for moral scrutiny: three hoodlums tell the owner of a gas station that they will protect him from broken windows and sugar in his gas for $200 a year, and the owner asks his lawyer whether he should pay. "We have here," said Mulder...
Radcliffe's 80th academic year began yesterday at the college's Formal Opening exercises in the Congregational-Presbyterian Church. Seniors, wearing their caps and grows for the first time, stopped traffic on Mason St. as they led the academic procession from the Radcliffe Yard into the church...