Word: revs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crying out at Republican rallies that Chairman Emerson, conservative Pullman merchant, was subtly working for his defeat by withholding campaign cooperation. Last week at a G. O. P. meeting at Bellingham. again outside the doors of a party clam-dinner from the rostrum of which he had been excluded, Rev. Payson Peterson loudly demanded Chairman Emerson's resignation, charged that Emerson was getting not only his funds but his directions from William Curtise Butler...
...National Council, was about to announce results of a ''Thank Offering" collected among the women when suddenly a plain churchman whom few recognized leaped up, strode to a microphone before the high altar. As Presiding Bishop James De Wolf Perry looked on with amazement from his throne, Rev. Cornelius Polhemus Trowbridge of Salem, Mass, cried: "I am not Franklin, but I am a minister of Christ. I have the permission of the Bishop of New Jersey to make a brief statement. I feel . . . that the contribution [$5,139] made at yesterday's magnificent opening service was entirely...
...reduced work. But in his opening sermon Presiding Bishop Perry forthrightly aligned himself with the mission cause and Dr. Franklin, a onetime banker and Wartime Liberty Loan worker, startled General Convention by accusing Episcopal parishes of holding out on missionary money - an accusation first publicly made last spring by Rev. C. Leslie Glenn of Cambridge (TIME, March 12). Pointing out that the National Council gets only 4½% out of each dollar contributed for all church purposes, Dr. Franklin urged General Convention to revise that ratio. Finally, the advocates of missions were cheered by a defense made...
...estimate of the quality of Mexican education was given in El Paso. Tex. last week by Rev. Michael Kenny, Jesuit, one-time regent of Loyola University's Law School. Returned from an investigation tour, he reported on Mexican sex education with special reference to the State of Tabasco, whose Governor is named Canabal. In Tabasco, according to Father Kenny, children are caused to learn about sex by viewing the matings of dogs, horses, cattle. In one case a bull was labeled "God," a cow "Virgin Mary." Said he: "Primary grade pupils in Tabasco were forced to strip naked, boys...
Early one morning last week in Milwaukee Rev. E. Reginald Williams, onetime rector of swank St. Mark's Episcopal Church, smashed up his automobile on the courthouse steps. He was fined $100 in absentia by a judge who announced the defendant was "too drunk to stand trial...