Word: revs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Port Elizabeth, South Africa, Rev. David Thomas Wright, 30, courted and won Frances Elliott of Kansas City by cabling the verse numbers of Biblical passages. He proposed with Genesis 12:1. She accepted with Ruth 1:16. He confirmed the proposal with Ruth 1:17. Last week Miss Elliott bought her ticket for Port Elizabeth...
...into social, economic and political arenas. To that end. months ago, the Christian Social Action Commission had prepared a 15,000-word report. Baptists up & down the land heard and discussed the report. Because of it, some Baptist churches threatened to leave the Convention. Typical of its opponents was Rev. Rex A. Mitchell of Paso Robles, Calif. who sent urchins racing among the delegates in Colorado Springs, distributing a broadside headed: CHOICE BETWEEN REDS AND GOD FACES BAPTISTS...
...Lloyd Fisher of Flemington has assumed command of the defense staff in place of beefy, bumbling Edward J. Reilly of Brooklyn, who is now suing Hauptmann for a $25,000 fee. In the meantime Prisoner Hauptmann, never a churchman, has acquired a "spiritual adviser" in the person of one Rev. D. G. Werner from Manhattan. Under the calming influence of this Lutheran divine, Bruno Richard Hauptmann has seen four of his fellow prisoners go to death in the electric chair, the fate to which he was sentenced by a Justice of the State's Supreme Court (TIME...
...Lords: ¶ Were treated to a vigorous denunciation of Democracy-particularly the U. S. brand-and a spirited defense of Fascism by that strong-minded patriarch, the Bishop of Exeter, Rt. Rev. Lord William Gascoyne-Cecil, whose father, the late great Marquess of Salisbury, was thrice Prime Minister...
...wish," mused Rev. William MacDougall Hay of Long Hill, Conn.'s Grace Church, writing in the Episcopalian Living Church last week, "some old and wise priest would write a little book of Advice to the Just-Ordained...