Word: pulpiteering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pulpit Plugs. Greatest test of Daley's strength was another, more ambitious bond issue for $195 million to finance such brick-and-mortar improvements as rapid-transit extensions, street and alley lighting, and 63 miles of new sewers. As the city-hall machine moved into overdrive, bank depositors found among their canceled checks flyers urging a yes vote, police and firemen trod sidewalks distributing literature, and Chicago's Roman Catholic Archbishop John P. Cody resorted to the pulpit to plug the measure. Result: the bonds passed by a 2-to-1 margin...
...businessmen are constantly faced with moral decisions. Yet what they hear from the pulpit on Sunday seldom seems relevant to the office problems they face on Monday. "In the natural cycle of life - birth, marriage, death -the church is doing a pretty good job," says Worth Loomis, vice president of Cleveland's Medusa Portland Cement Co. "But it is nonexistent when decisions are being made in man's line of work." Applying Christianity to the decision-making process in offices and factories is the goal of a significant new form of experimental ministry in the U.S.: the industrial...
Speaking in the pulpit of Memorial Church. Fainsod told his daughter. Mary Fainsod '66, and 205 of her classmates that "each of us has a role to play, and we play it by action or inaction." He declared that although "there are some among my old fogy contemporaries who ... deplore the extremity of your views ... I would rather have you active and thoughtfully involved, whatever be your cause, than to see you passive and indifferent, concerned only with your own private affairs...
...first Negro-staffed and directed bank, now only a year-and-a-half old, Freedom National Bank is a symbol of what Negros can do to help themselves, according to the President of the bank, Willam F. Hudgins. Hudgins feels that going to the people by taking to the pulpit is a legitimate tactic in his crusade to bring full banking service to a community where discrimination in the money market is one of its many economic handicaps. He hopes not only to gain new accounts for the bank, but to modernize the churchgoers' primitive financial habits. Many have never...
...some 100 priests gathered outside the home of their Archbishop-76-year-old Gregorio Modrego Casáus-and sent in six of their leaders to demand that the church immediately take steps to excommunicate the guilty cops. They also said that they would "tell the truth" from the pulpit. Archbishop Modrego said nothing-but his silence wished the priests back to their pulpits...