Word: revs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with a ban on the sale, distribution or printing of obscene literature, has been under attack for years by physicians and their patients, but is regularly kept in force by the state senate, strongly supported by the large urban concentrations of Roman Catholic constituents. The New Haven ministers -the Rev. C. Lawson Willard of Trinity Episcopal Church, Luther R. Livingston of Bethesda Lutheran Church, and George Teague of the First Methodist Church-declared that they were "bound by the teachings of the church and our c n religious beliefs to counsel married parishioners on the use of contraceptive devices...
...London, England, the Rev. Dr. Leslie Weatherhead, past president of Britain's Methodist Conference, came out in favor of legalizing mercy killing. General Practitioner Dr. Maurice L. Millard, 58, whose father founded England's Euthanasia Society 22 years ago, had touched off a debate on the subject in the British press with his bland statement in a Rotary Club speech that he had recently given a suffering patient, near death from cancer, a lethal dose of a drug, after she had "made her peace with God" and settled her affairs. "What I did . . . was to give...
Frontier College operates on a tiny budget: $70,000 this year, most from private gifts, part from the Canadian government. But since 1899 it has taught more than 250,000 men-some of whom have taught a thing or two to the teachers. The Rt. Rev. Anson Phelps Stokes Jr., Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Massachusetts, who learned about Frontier College from Fellow Yaleman Ben Spock, was a teacher in an Ontario construction camp in 1928. Recalls Bishop Stokes (who answered to the camp tag, "Slim"): "I asked the carpenter boss, 'Can I have some 18-inch spreaders...
...sharp breach among the experts. Against aid for parochial schools: the one agnostic, Economics Professor Robert Lekachman of Barnard College, and Rabbi Robert Gordis of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. For aid: Catholic Layman William Gorman, onetime associate director of the Institute for Philosophical Research, and the Rev. Dr. F. Ernest Johnson of the (Protestant) National Council of Churches of Christ...
...band's blare of Marching Through Georgia. The date was June 1893. The speaker, in the double identity that was the theme of his life, was 1) Thomas Ewing Sherman, eldest surviving son of General William Tecumseh Sherman, who had died but two years befofe; 2) the Rev. Thomas Ewing Sherman, a militant Jesuit, known to the lecture circuit as "Father Tom." The Jesuit began to speak in bullet sentences. "It was a Roman Catholic who planted the stars and stripes on the parapets at Vicksburg ... It was a Roman Catholic who led the most dashing charge...