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...Assembly arrangements and the credentials of delegates. Last week, with Stated Clerk Mudge about to retire at 70, the 150th Assembly, in Philadelphia, prepared to elect his successor. Obvious choice was a big-jawed, heavy-set Presbyterian who had worked in the "Vatican" since 1903-Rev. Dr. William Barrow Pugh, 49, of Chester, Pa., nephew of Stated Clerk Roberts and assistant since 1922 of Stated Clerk Mudge...
...Pugh, however, was a prominent anti-Machenite: the man who, in 1934, was credited with perfecting the legal devices by which fundamentalist followers of the late Dr. J. Gresham Machen were read out of the Presbyterian Church. As a sudden, random gesture of conciliation toward the Machenites, the nominating committee last week picked a dark horse. The gesture was so random that the dark horse. Rev. Paul Coverly Johnston of Rochester, N. Y., had gone home unaware he was nominated. He telegraphed his withdrawal, whereupon Dr. Pugh won hands down...
...some extent fallen." This was cautious praise. Dr. Rienk Bouke.Kuiper, 52, was a good friend of Dr. Machen. taught at Westminster Seminary which his friend founded, succeeded him as chairman of its faculty. Along with other Machenites, Moderator Kuiper last week viewed the election of Stated Clerk Pugh as proof that they had done well to leave the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. Of church unity, toward which the larger Presbyterian Church seemed favorably disposed, he said stiffly: "This is no time for it. There ought to be more splits, in every denomination...
LINGERING DEATH-Winfield Scott Pugh M-D-Hygienic Publishing Co. (Manhattan...
Jack J. F. McConnechie, 2ndDriscoll C. J. Byrne, Jr.Cocky W. W. Webster, Jr.Stage Manager, P. E. MorganA HANDFUL OF SHEEPMiss Pugh Peggy Holman, R '88Captain Hughes R. M. EcklesMrs. Morris Agnds Love, R '84Aholibah Jones Katherine Young R '37Moses Roberts W. H. FelmethBugh Parry the Post D. W. NusebaumJohn Roberts the Fish R. P. Baker. Jr.Stage Manager, A. W. Clowe