Word: revs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nowhere damning Mexico's Government as tyrannical-as he once was wont to- the Pope seemed to be pressing a policy of hopeful moderation which he exhibited last month in appointing a friend of President Lazaro Cardenas, Most Rev. Luis Maria Martinez, to be Archbishop of Mexico, D. F. To Mexican Catholics the Pope's advice was: "Be good to the poor, to workers, to Indians; promote application of the principles of justice and charity; eliminate abuses, at the same time guarding against violent changes which only would cause harm instead of good...
Appointment of a parson and a rabbi to help Rev. Frederic Siedenberg. executive dean of the Jesuit University of Detroit, mediate Detroit's pandemonium of sit-down strikes was not the only thing which reminded observers of the medieval dance mania last week as they watched the U. S. Sit-Down epidemic of 1937 spread out across the land. From Salem witchcraft persecution to Ku Klux Klan, from Gold Rush of 1849 to Bull Market of 1929, the U. S. has shown itself no less subject than its sister nations to seizures of mass hysteria. The Sit-Down last...
...Congregationalists glowed with pride when they heard that one of their sex had been elected to be Congregationalist Babson's opposite number in South Africa. Though no minister, Emilie Solomon of Capetown was made the first woman chairman of the Congregational Union of South Africa. Two female ministers, Rev. Euphemia Mclntosh and Rev. Lilian Dower, assisted at the induction ceremonies and robed Chairman Solomon in a gown contributed by the Women's Federation of the Church. Miss Solomon signed her name in a Bible in which were the signatures of all her predecessors including her father, who held...
...school," although such rich boys as Robert Lessing Rosenwald of Abingdon, Pa. now go there. In its long career Gunnery has had only three headmasters. Last week it was handed over by retiring William Hamilton Gibson to a fourth educator who can well preserve its austere tradition: Rev. Tertius van Dyke, Headmaster Gibson's brother-in-law, the pastor of Washington's Congregational Church, son of Princeton's late beloved little literary patriarch, Dr. Henry van Dyke...
Such a dilemma confronted Rev. J. Fred Johnson of Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Chattanooga, Tenn. last fortnight when a deacon informed him that Mary Katherine Prince and Frank Otto Cotton Jr. had been married-properly, by a Georgia clergyman-for two years. They had kept it secret from all but a handful of friends and Preacher Johnson had to break the news to the bride's mother. Thinking of the 500 engraved invitations, the church decorations, the reception at her home, Mother Prince fainted. When she revived, she discussed the matter with Preacher Johnson until near dawn...