Word: revs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night last week five candelabra flickered through the gloom of Boston's Union Congregational Church-the church in down-at-heel South End to which Rev. Dwight Jacques Bradley went after relinquishing a swank one in Newton, Mass. (TIME, Sept. 24). A mixed congregation of 600 gazed in interested bewilderment at a slim, bare-foot girl in the chancel. She wore nothing but a long flowing gown. Her name was Eleanor Schirmer and she was a Newton socialite whose father was a Boston banker...
...Sabbath Against Possible Encroachment by Calendar Reform is not the only opponent of the kind of change in the Church Year which was favorably discussed last fortnight at the meeting of the Federal Council of Churches (TIME, Dec. 17). Last week the Episcopal Churchman published the following comment by Rev. Dr. William Norman Guthrie, voluble, mystical rector of Manhattan's Church of St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie...
Last week in Oklahoma City Rev. Homer Lewis Sheffer told his congregation at First Unitarian Church that he was resigning, to accept a call from the First Unitarian Society of Spokane. Wash. "I assure you," said Pastor Sheffer crisply from his pulpit, "that there have been no pious conversations with the Almighty. Other opportunities have come to me but I have turned them down. This time I cannot...
...Died. Rev. Dr. William Greenough Thayer, 70, longtime (1894-1930) headmaster of St. Mark's School at Southborough, Mass.; in Boston...
...Manhattan restaurant one morning last week three people sat breakfasting on highballs. They were Rev. Joseph J. Leonard, 40, a Roman Catholic priest; Joseph Lieb Steinmetz, 22, a Jew turned Presbyterian theology student; and Mrs. Steinmetz, 17, a minor showgirl whom he had married a fortnight before. The three had met casually the night before. From the restaurant they returned to the Knights of Columbus Club Hotel and the Steinmetz room where another bottle of whiskey was consumed. When Steinmetz began feeling groggy, Father Leonard suggested he lie down. He heard the priest say to his wife...