Word: revs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...private life, the Mayor applied to Rabbi Wise a set of epithets first used by the late Mayor William J. Gaynor: "All-sufficient, insufficient, self-sufficient Rabbi Wise, who thinks he is pious but is only bilious; a man of vast and varied misinformation and of prodigious moral requirements." Rev. John Haynes Holmes, co-signer of the charges, was described as "for years a leader in a group of agitators and Soviet sympathizers." To the Mayor, the City Affairs Committee was "nothing more than an annex of the Socialist party masquerading under a name contrived to deceive the public...
...Kidnapped last October by Chinese bandits with some smattering of Western culture, Rev. Bert N. Nelson, Minneapolis, Minn. Lutheran missionary, has been bargaining ever since for his release, communicating with his brother in Shanghai...
...Also kidnapped last October near Loshan in Honan Province was Rev. Kristofer N. Tvedt, a St. Paul Minn. Lutheran missionary, recently ransomed (TIME, April 27). He reached Hankow last week where his wife and six children have been frantic with anxiety for half a year. Broken in health, looking 20 years older and horribly dirty, Mr. Tvedt said...
Died. Rt. Rev. Richard Henry Nelson, 71, retired bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Albany, N. Y.; in Albany...
...Rev. Kirby Page, editor of The World Tomorrow, in conjunction with Samuel Parkes Cadman, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Daniel Alfred Poling, Walter Russell Bowie, John Nevin Sayre, i Ralph Washington Sockman, Reinhold Niebuhr, j Sherwood Eddy and William Pierson Merrill, all of whom suspected, and hoped for, the effect of Peter's conscience on his views...