Word: revs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What makes us sad," commented Rev. Sigfrid Sirenius, one of Helsinki's leading settlement workers, "is to think that revenue from the sale of liquor will soon figure as the basis of the national budget. . . . The local deduction will be that it will be a patriotic duty to drink heavily, so that the State will get more revenue...
...President had received no similar request from such prominent Protestants in Mexico as Bishop Efraim Salinas y Velasco Suffragan (Episcopal), Bishop Juan N. Pascoe (Methodist), or the Rev. Charles R. McKean (Union, nondenominational ). Their churches have never had so many clergymen in Mexico as one per 50,000, while Catholics have always had vastly more. Tilting forward in his chair, President Ortiz Rubio signed the bill, then and there made...
Gloomy figures confronted U. S. Protesant churchmen last week. To the monthly meeting of the administrative committee of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America went Rev. Arva Brush Keeler, director of the department of Buildings & property of the Presbyterian Board of National Missions. Director Keeler told the committee that Protestant churches in the U. S. owe some $135.000,000. Church bonds amounting to $6,000,000 or more have been defaulted by twelve denominations alone. Church credit, said le, is none too good; church building projects are being held up by Depression. Director Keeler suggested...
...Most Rev. Cosmo Gordon Lang Archbishop of Canterbury admitted authorship of a "highly romantic" novel in his youth. Said he: "Nothing would induce me to reveal the name of that dreadful book [written under a pseudonym]. I had forgotten all about it until Hugh Walpole mentioned it before a meeting the other night...
...appeal for support, signed by Rabbi Nathan Krass, Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes, Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick and Bishop William Thomas Manning, Manhattan's Committee of Fourteen (antivice) declared the Depression is forcing many young women "either directly into prostitution or at least into borderline occupations from which the ranks of prostitution are most generally recruited," and that the underworld is ''taking advantage of this situation...