Word: revs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...happened that a good friend of Richard Upjohn was the Rev. Jonathan Mayhew Wainright, assistant rector of Manhattan's Trinity Church. At the time that pious pile's walls were sagging badly, the whole structure in need of repair. Richard Upjohn went down from New Bedford, persuaded the Trinity Corporation to rebuild its church entirely in the Gothic style, to move the site nine feet northward so that it would face squarely down the centre of dusty, willow-shaded Wall Street...
...Harrisburg, Pa. one day last week the State House of Representatives was opened with prayer by Rev. Frank W. Ruth, Democratic floor leader. Prayed Mr. Ruth...
...Detroit last week Rev. J. Frank Norris, blatant Baptist lately called from Fort Worth. Tex. (TIME, Jan. 14), began to preach his doctrines of damnation in a tent which he claims is the nation's largest. From a tent pitched nearby came the raucous blare of the Curtis Fashion Plate Circus. Preacher Norris indignantly prayed God to put a stop to this disturbance...
Throughout the land last week thousands upon thousands of proud fathers & mothers were preparing to attend the college graduations of their sons & daughters. In Leominster, Mass, the Rev. Nathan Gist packed his bags, set out for California to see his 80-year-old mother graduate this week from Claremont College...
...minister in the old Congregational Church of Salem, Conn, was Brewster Bingham, fifth son of onetime (1924-33) U. S. Senator Hiram Bingham, grandson of Hiram Bingham (1831-1908), missionary to Micronesia in the South Pacific, great-grandson of Hiram Bingham (1789-1869), missionary to the Sandwich Islands. Rev. Brewster Bingham, who during his Yale years startled New Haven housewives by begging food as religious discipline, jolted the Salem Ecclesiastical Council by declaring: "We could learn much from Karl Marx...