Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vital Statistics. Age: 57 (born March 19, 1891 in a five-room frame house on Los Angeles' dingy Turner Street). Ancestry: his grandfather was Halvar Varran, a Norwegian carpenter, who came to the U.S. with his wife and two sons, settled in Iowa and anglicized his name; his father...
To develop "a unified religious radio ministry," 15 church denominations and eight interdenominational agencies last week organized a Protestant Radio Commission. Chairman is Federal Council of Churches President Charles P. Taft. Major activities of the new organization will be to provide technical advice on broadcasting to local councils of churches...
When New Mexico became a state in 1912, the area around Santa Fe was predominantly Roman Catholic. As more Protestants moved in, there was more & more grumbling about nuns (on the state payroll) still doing much of the teaching in the public schools, and about classroom crucifixes and catechisms (TIME...
New Mexico's Protestant Governor Thomas J. Mabry deplored efforts "to stir up religious misunderstanding." From the state's Catholic hierarchy came a statement: "The authorities of the Church in New Mexico have in no manner whatsoever entertained the muchly haunted and often misunderstood so-called union of...
In Manhattan, the National Council of the Protestant Episcopal Church announced that dollars were piling high in the collection plate in response to Presiding Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill's radio appeal for contributions to a special world relief fund. Indications were that the $1,000,000 Episcopal goal would...