Word: revs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More extraordinary was the announcement of fiery Rev. Pablo Delgado, a publicity-seeking Mexican preacher and onetime Carranzista who has been holding forth in Texas border towns since he was exiled from Mexico in 1920. He said he would campaign for the Presidency of Mexico exclusively on U. S. soil. Explained Preacher Delgado: "Mexican politics are controlled by opinion in the United States." His platform: return the expropriated oil lands to their onetime U. S. and British holders...
...General Welfare Act has 100 pledged supporters in the present Congress. Two of them, California's Jerry Voorhis and Harry Sheppard, turned up to read the skeptical Chairman Doughton prepared statements on the wonders of the General Welfare Act. The federation's nominal president, the Rev. Mr. Thomas E. Boorde, a member of the Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, "which speaks for 4,121,000 Southern Baptists," declared: "The Church must be up and about its Father's business." Read to the committee was a long testimonial to the General Welfare Act by Minnesota...
...uncommonly handsome, smoothspoken and astute Roman Catholic prelate is Most Rev. James Hugh Ryan, Bishop for the past three years of Omaha, Neb., and onetime (1928-35) Rector of the Catholic University of America (Washington, D. C.). As head of the nation's only pontifical university, Bishop Ryan was friend to many a secular bigwig in Washington, including Franklin D. Roosevelt. Last December the Bishop, with his good friend Rev. Dr. Maurice S. Sheehy, head of the University's religious education department, called upon President Roosevelt at the White House. Ensued some joking about a mutual interest...
Selected by the Catholic Book Club as its January choice was A Guide to Catholic Action ($2), edited by Paul McGuire and Rev. John Fitzsimons of Liverpool. Of Layman McGuire, a writer of detective stories on the side (Funeral in Eden), his publishers, Sheed & Ward, say: "There is nothing quite like him for stirring a kind of steady enthusiasm for Being Catholic Out Loud." Some of the Guide's pointers for forming Catholic Action groups: > "The most suitable number for a group is usually about twelve. . . . They are to have a corporate life. They must pray together, study together...
First time KMOX (St. Louis) invited bald, elderly Rev. Louis Sieck of the Zion Lutheran Church to its Church of the Air pulpit, studio technicians schooled him thoroughly in the ticklish trick of winding up his sermon on the dot. Recently the Rev. Mr. Sieck was invited to KMOX again. This time he knew all the answers. Glancing over his spectacles now and then at the big studio clock as he rolled off his message. Parson Sieck was pleased to fancy that he and the big second hand were finishing in an expert dead heat. "Glory...