Word: revs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harry Emerson Fosdick who packs the Riverside Church from spire to cellar each Sunday morning with his popular sermons will preach on December 8 at the Memorial Church. Also on the list of preachers for the fall term are Henry Sloane Coffin, President of the Union Seminary, and the Rev. Arthur Lee Kinsolving of Trinity Church, Boston...
...fairly frequent visitor to the White House in the early days of the Administration was Rev. Charles Edward Coughlin, the plump radiorator from Royal Oak, Mich. He subsequently split with the President over Inflation, the Bonus, the World Court. Recently, however, Father Coughlin shut up his Washington lobby, conceded: "President Roosevelt enunciates the clearest, most effective and beneficial principles of social and economic justice of any living American political economist." That Franklin Roosevelt had taken a potent critic into camp seemed to be confirmed last week when Chairman Joseph P. Kennedy of the Securities & Exchange Commission rolled up to Hyde...
There was the Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith, the Dictator's unofficial chaplain and national organizer of his Share-Our-Wealth Clubs. This onetime pastor of a rich Shreveport Christian Church congregation surpassed himself in a 15-minute eulogy over his dead chief's bier. It began: "Greater love hath no man. . . . The lives of great men do not end with the grave. They just begin. This place marks not the resting place of Huey P. Long, it marks only the burial ground for his body. His spirit shall never rest as long as hungry bodies cry for food...
While Premier Bennett anguished and Premier Aberhart communed at Detroit's Shrine of the Little Flower, an extremely tall, imposing British cleric in black gaiters and frock coat landed in Manhattan on his way to Alberta. As newshawks swarmed around him the very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, Dean of Canterbury, observed: "Newspapermen? Ah yes. Terrible people! You aren't usually so eager for a sermon. Well, this is my chance...
...Petersburg, Fla. last week 53 persons appeared in court to protest the "hollering, moaning, screaming, stomping and wailing" of the congregation of a Church of God. Witnesses for the church and its Rev. C. W. Kearse replied that they were praying "in the old-fashioned way." A jury found Mr. Kearse guilty of maintaining a public nuisance...