Word: rector
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There, in a reception room decorated with jonquils and tulips, on a long oak table were spread calf-bound records, property deeds, Great-Grandfather Willkie's will. Their significance, according to Nazi spokesmen: they prove that Willkie is "a liar." Aschersleben's city archivist, Prussian-headed little Rector Goapka, launched into the story of his Willkie research. He made a big point of the four spellings of the name he found in church and city records: Willke, Willcke, Willeke, Willecke. "But," said he, "the name was never Willicke, as Herr Presidentschaftskandidat said." He grew impassioned, spluttered about blood...
Since New York is the biggest U. S. city, more lives were upset there than anywhere else. Chairman of one of New York's 280 boards was the Rev. George T. Gruman, rector of Trinity Episcopal Church in Brooklyn. Mr. Gruman's district is a drab and musty slum, where elevated trains scream past, sidewalks are dirty or nonexistent, and unpainted picket fences fail to dignify the disheveled houses. Before Mr. Gruman, the Lutheran businessman and the president of a Hebrew school who sit with him on Local Board 229, paraded the poor of the district...
...thinking about girls in college that gave the Rev. James Harry Price his idea. Mr. Price is rector of suburban Scarsdale, N. Y.'s Episcopal Church of St. James the Less. Last fall he learned that ten girls from Scarsdale had entered Smith that September. That seemed a good many Smith freshmen from one small town. Mr. Price leafed through his parish list, found that 260 boys & girls were away at school and college, most of them in New England. Why not pay them a visit? Lots of parsons visit lots of schools every year, reasoned Rector Price...
...crowded round of services, Communions, breakfasts, lunches, teas, dinners and just plain get-togethers, in eight days Rector Price visited 25 schools and colleges (Yale, Wesleyan, Amherst, Mount Holyoke, Smith, Wellesley, Harvard, M. I. T., Radcliffe, Exeter, St. Paul's, Dartmouth, Bennington, Kent, Taft, etc.), talked with a hundred youngsters from Scarsdale, got home this week with the car muddy and himself full of ambition. Some of the encouraging things he found on his trip...
...single boy or girl Rector Price met was a conscientious objector. But he found no enthusiasm for the U. S. entering the war, a general feeling among the boys that they were willing to be drafted, but far from eager...