Word: revs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week when the elders of the Landes-kirchen, representing 29 Protestant church groups, meeting in Berlin, stubbornly refused to accept a hand-picked Nazi candidate as First Evangelical Bishop of the Reich. Picked by the Hitlerites to unify and co-ordinate Germany's Protestant sects was a Rev. Dr. Ludwig Müller. army chaplain and leader of a Nazi organization known as the "German Christians." Despite arguments, pleas and threats, the sober, elderly delegates to the Landes-kirchen stubbornly refused to vote for him, chose as their leader patriarchal Rev. Dr. Friedrich von Bodelschwingh. known throughout Germany...
...Majesty's Grace, no man in Scotland has higher rank than the Moderator of the "Auld Kirk," the Church of Scotland. Only the Lord Chancellor of Great Britain takes precedence. Last week at the General Assembly in Edinburgh a new Moderator was elected. Rev. Dr. Lauchlan MacLean Watt of Glasgow Cathedral. He presided over the Assembly while delegates disapprovingly discussed a proposal to unite with the Church of England, and while one of them called Scot Ramsay MacDonald a "Sabbath-breaker" for holding "more Cabinet meetings on the Lord's Day than any one of his predecessors...
...biggest group of Rhodesmen (40%) have become educators. Eight are college presidents, 13 deans, one (John James Tigert) was U. S. Commissioner of Education from 1921 to 1928. Other distinguished Rhodesmen include Minister to Austria Gilchrist Baker Stockton, onetime Amateur Boxing Champion Edward Francis ("Eddie") Eagan (now a lawyer), Rev. Arthur Lee Kinsolving of Boston, Stanley Kuhl Hornbeck who advises Secretary Hull on the Far East, Police Commissioner J. K. Watkins of Detroit, Astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble of Mt. Wilson (whose conception of the expanding Universe is called the "Hubble Bubble"), Chairman Francis P. Miller of the World...
Three hundred members of the Otter Tail County Farmers' Holiday Association last week clumped into the county courthouse in Fergus Falls, Minn, to stop the foreclosure sale of a farm owned by one Abraham Matson. Leading the crowd marched a public-spirited Unitarian clergyman, Rev. John Flint, 50, outraged that the auction was to take place even though Farmer Matson was home sick. When County Coroner Curtis, substituting as auctioneer for recently deceased County Sheriff O. J. Tweten, put the customary question, "Is there any objection to conducting this sale?" 300 barnyard voices bellowed "Yes!" Coroner Curtis promptly granted...
...embraced Humanism. Their church was dismayed but could do nothing, its own creed being far from stringent. There are Humanist groups in Manhattan. Hollywood, Berkeley, Calif., Sioux City and Minneapolis. They hope soon to form a national organization. The Minneapolis group is under the guidance of a Humanist pioneer, Rev. John Hassler Dietrich who, nominally Unitarian, began preaching Humanism 18 years ago and now has 2,000 followers. Humanists like Dietrich and Potter are the only preachers of whom grumpy Clarence Darrow approves. Humanist Dietrich signed last week's manifesto, as did Humanist Potter. Journalist Harry Elmer Barnes. John...