Word: revs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most Southern churchmen are theological, economic and political hard-shells. Eleven years ago one of the oldest and richest churches in Chattanooga, Tenn., Third Presbyterian, called a Scottish-born-and-burred clergyman who was anything but shellbacked-Rev. Thomas B. Cowan. In 1934 Pastor Cowan held a meeting of a new, radical organization, the Fellowship of Southern Churchmen, later became its president. Thereupon 22 Chattanoogans seceded from Third Church. More left when Mr. Cowan helped organize labor unions, worked among sharecroppers, invited a Negro to a church dinner. Of late the chief listeners to Pastor Cowan's Sunday sermons...
William Roerick, in the part of Algernon Moncrieff, a sort of prototype of Bertie Wooster, is a little too much the romantic lover and not enough of the playboy. Ainsworth Arnold supplies a refreshing blast of unctuous lechery as the Rev. Canon Chasuble...
...others: Rev. Cyril Charlie Martindale, London Jesuit; Rev. Martin Cyril D'Arcy, Master of Oxford's Campion Hall. †f Sheed & Ward...
...Must We Tolerate Intolerance?" demanded Rev. Wilbur Larremore Caswell last week in the liberal Episcopal Churchman. Mr. Caswell thus stated a dilemma which bothers many a religious liberal. It was posed for him last month by a Nazi Bund rally on Washington's Birthday in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. That rally loudly cheered Adolf Hitler and Rev. Charles Edward ("Silo Charlie") Coughlin, loudly booed President Roosevelt ("Rosenfeld" to Bund speakers). Ejected from the meeting was Pundit Dorothy Thompson, who laughed shrilly at a speaker's citation of the Golden Rule. The rally was perfectly legal...
...Rev. Dr. Maurice Stephen Sheehy, able young Catholic University executive (TIME, Feb. 13), went on the radio with a scholarly speech detailing the pro-Jewish policies of the Popes, from the earliest (the first Pope, St. Peter, and several of his immediate successors were born Jews) to the late Pius XL Father Sheehy's talk was made under the auspices of a new, interfaith Council Against Intolerance in America...