Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Safran had come a long way to the job he had just lost. For twelve years a Detroit attorney (ten years in U.A.W. Lawyer Maurice Sugar's office), he abandoned the law in 1943 to study for the ministry. Only last June, at the age of 37, he...
¶ Announced (after pressure from Protestant churchmen) that presidential Envoy Myron Taylor would be brought home from the Vatican as soon as his job was finished (see RELIGION).
* Current count: over 200 Protestant, three Catholic denominations.
As to their reception Bishop Oxnam was silent last week, said he would first report to the Federal Council's executive committee. But indications were that the Protestant churchmen had come away with high hopes. Said Presbyterian Delegate Dr. John A. Maclean: "We were assured that Mr. Taylor'...
*From 1848 to 1867 the U.S. maintained a complete legation at the Vatican, discontinued it at the approaching collapse of the temporal power (which was restored by the Lateran treaty of 1929). France, which also separates church & state, and England, with a Protestant state church, both maintain diplomatic relations with...