Word: revs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Year ago the U. S. press carried an ugly tale: near Earle, Ark., when a picket line of sharecroppers was broken up by a mob of vigilantes, a Negro named Frank Weems had been beaten to death. Within a few days the Rev. Claude Williams, asked by the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union to preach Weems's funeral sermon, left Memphis accompanied by Willie Sue Blagden, Memphis social worker, to investigate Weems's death and gather material for his obituary. At Earle, they were seized by vigilantes. Parson Williams was given 14 thumping whacks with a mule...
...whole Weems incident was cleared up. In the office of Lawyer Francis Heisler appeared Negro Frank Weems, alive and whole. After being beaten he had hidden for a week in a hobo "jungle," then traveled north, had finally told his story to the Workers' Defense League. The Rev. Claude Williams and Willie Sue Blagden might have suffered in vain, but safe in Chicago Frank Weems planned to sue his floggers for $25,000 damages...
Called to order by the Association's president, Vincent de Paul Fitzpatrick of the Baltimore Catholic Review, the VOICE began thundering at the arch foe it attacks all year long in print: Communism. Conventioneers applauded when the Rev. Dr. George Johnson of the Catholic University of America told them that "Catholics recognize Communism for what it is ... a heresy. Whatever Communism creates ... is just so much machinery for eliminating God from human society!" They cheered again when Bishop John M. Gannon of Erie cried: ''Who knows, but that in the secrets of Divine Providence, the Spanish people...
...Lang? The seventh son of a seventh son, dour, hawk-nosed Cosmo Gordon Lang, 72, was not raised in the church that he governs. His father was a Presbyterian preacher, the Very Rev. John Marshall Lang, Principal of Aberdeen University.* At University of Glasgow precocious Cosmo Gordon Lang won his M.A. degree at the age of 18 and a year later a valuable scholarship at swank Balliol College, Oxford. Always a politician, always ambitious, Student Lang was elected president of the Oxford Union over such potent undergraduates as Lord Curzon, Sir Edward Grey, Novelist Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins (The Prisoner...
...Still a Presbyterian is the Archbishop's little-known brother, the Rt. Rev. Marshall B. Lang, since 1935 Moderator of the Church of Scotland...