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...diversion the delegates and their ladies attended a WPA play, excursioned to mountains, inspected the Moffat Tunnel. On Sunday many a Denver church had an A. F. of L. leader in the pulpit...
...Governor of Connecticut, presented the symbols of office-the mace, the keys, the record book, the charter and the great seal of the university-in sonorous Latin pronounced him the 15th president of Yale. In Latin, President Seymour replied. This 200-year-old ritual completed, Historian Seymour mounted the pulpit, warned that "Yale must be vigilantly self-critical . . . must beware of the peril of isolation," pledged "absolute intellectual freedom," exhorted Yalemen: "The duty of protecting freedom of thought and speech is the more compelling in these days when the liberal spirit in the world at large is in deadly peril...
Before he descended from the pulpit of Newark's Second Presbyterian Church to go into politics, Dr. Clee had organized two of the largest adult Bible classes in the U. S. He became Speaker of the State House of Representatives, in 1935 forced repeal of a State sales tax for relief money. Macmillan will publish Dr. Glee's The Preacher in Politics this month. Stocky, eloquent, liberal in both his ecclesiastical and political opinions, Dr. Clee will campaign on a platform of clean government and economy. Whether or not he is elected Governor in November may depend largely...
This seemed to be the opinion of several hundred of Niemoller parishioners in tree-lined Dahlem, a Berlin suburb. When they met for Sunday morning service they heard delivered from the pulpit an announcement that enraged them-the special prayer meeting they had planned to hold that evening for their imprisoned leader had been banned by police...
While hundreds of thousands of Orthodox adherents boasted that the Premier would have to resign in face of such widespread opposition, he remained obdurate, forbade press mention of the pulpit denunciation, refused to recognize that members of Parliament could be held responsible "by any court even ecclesiastical" for the votes they cast...