Word: revs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago's Charles Gates and Rufus Dawes last week joined the other trustees of their alma mater, Ohio's old Marietta College, to elect as president Rev. Harry Kelso Eversull, Yaleman, Republican, for twelve years minister of Cincinnati's big Walnut Hills Congregational Church...
Among the numerous followers of Rev. Major J. ("Father") Divine who have never laid eyes on the man they think is God, is a sizable group in California. These Divinites claim to number 100,000, one-quarter of them white. In Los Angeles last week, G-men were delving into affairs of the local "kingdom." In his Harlem and Kingston, N. Y. headquarters small, brown Father Divine, despite his claim that he is not responsible for his out-of-town followers, was plainly worried - all because able Reporter Johnston Davis ("Jack") Kerkhoff of the New York Journal...
...Voliva estimated the loss at $600,000, said he had $23,000 insurance, declared that the fire was incendiary, set by enemies of the Passion Play which, he said, "aroused terrific opposition among an element of this community which I have fought for 30 years." An anti-Volivan named Rev. Theodore Pfeiffer denied that the fire was set but admitted there had been opposition. "The fire," he said, "was a judgment of God against the turning of the Tabernacle into a theatre." This week a Zionite named Thomas Griffith, 19, confessed to setting the fire, with kerosene, "to get even...
...Rev. John Schwartzmeier some years ago proposed George William Cardinal Mundelein. During the critical stage of Pius XI's late illness, talk in the Vatican was that a substantial party of cardinals favored de-Italianizing the papacy, trying out a U. S. pope in full knowledge that even a fiasco would make little difference in the Church's long history. In disregard of the fact that comparatively young, vigorous cardinals are most papabile, the U. S. candidate was supposed to be New York's frail, 69-year-old Patrick Cardinal Hayes...
...lege of Charleston (S. C.), founded in 1770 and under city control since 1837, is in point of age Louisville's chief rival. The University of Akron (1913) was once a Universalist college. The Municipal Uni versity of Omaha (1931) was founded as a non-sectarian institution by Rev. Daniel Jenkins, a Presbyterian minister, for Omahans who did not want to go to Jesuit Creighton University. The other municipal universities had various origins. The University of the City of Toledo grew out of a manual training school whose funds were turned over to the city...