Word: revs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...section of the vigilant U. S. Catholic press has accused much of the U. S. secular press of a bias on issues affecting Catholicism. In particular, the coverage of the Spanish war by such newspapers as the New York Times infuriates Catholic publicists. In America, sharply-edited Jesuit weekly, Rev. 'John A. Toomey, S. J. lately urged that Catholics bring their national organizations to bear on offending journals. Father Toomey pointed out that Jewish issues are never misrepresented for long in the U. S. press, in which Jews are important advertisers...
...Rev. Major J. ("Father") Divine, Harlem cultist whose followers believe he is God, has many "extensions" or "kingdoms." Chief one until last week was a three-story building, rank with human and culinary odors, which he rented on Manhattan's 115th Street. Why this kingdom had not long since collapsed was the wonder of any outsider who ever attended a meeting there, felt its floors reverberate to the rhythmic pounding of a thousand Corybantic Negro feet. Many a Harlemite believes the black "God's" following is dwindling. Last week Father Divine's chief kingdom, still apparently...
...three men who, as members of President Hoover's Commission, had voted the other way. Two of them were University of Chicago's Professor Charles Hubbard Judd and American Council on Education's George F. Zook. Most significant about-face was made by the third, the Rev. George Johnson, director of education of the National Catholic Welfare Conference. For the Committee had won Catholic support of Federal aid by recommending that States be allowed, if they chose, to give part of the Federal money to parochial schools...
...Church (North), its Board of Christian Education intends to spend the next three years raising $10,000,000 for the endowment and running expenses of these 105 colleges and Presbyterian centres. Last week the Presbyterians announced that the first gift to their Sesquicentennial Fund came from an Episcopalian. Rt. Rev. Robert Lewis Paddock, retired bishop of Oregon, donated...
Died. The Rev. Dr. Samuel Smith Drury, 59, rector of St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H., since 1911; of heart failure; in Boston. Passionately loved, feared, hated by his pupils, "The Rector" once said that American boarding schools, "if they wreck, will break not on the rock of scholarship, but on the shoals of snobbery...