Word: revs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Barry doing so badly? Certainly not out of any vast national veneration for Johnson. A great number of Americans feel that in voting for Johnson they will only be opting for the lesser of two evils. This feeling was most dramatically described in a Sunday sermon by the Very Rev. Francis B. Sayre Jr., dean of Washington's Episcopal Cathedral and a man who, as Woodrow Wilson's grandson, was born in the White House...
...nation's largest Negro church is the National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc. Its 5,000,000 members are fond of fervent gospel songs and sin-damning sermons, and show little interest in merging with more staid and sober white Baptist groups. Their kind of leader is the Rev. Joseph Harrison Jackson, the grandfatherly ecclesiastical politician who last week in Detroit was overwhelmingly elected to his twelfth consecutive term as National Baptist president...
...limit tenure of the presidency to four one-year terms. In 1957, there was much hollering and chair throwing at the church's annual meeting when Jackson declared the amendment illegal and won himself an extra term. Three years later, the anti-Jackson forces united behind the Rev. Gardner Taylor of Brooklyn, but his election to the presidency was eventually overturned by the church's board of directors after a court battle. After failing to unseat Jackson in 1961 at a meeting so quarrel-ridden that one minister died during the commotion, most of Jackson's opponents...
...REV.) WILLIAM MITCHELL Phoenix...
...court bans against the sale of Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer and an Ohio ruling that forbade the showing of a French movie called The Lovers. In all, nine clergymen signed the public statement: Presiding Bishop Lloyd C. Wicke of the Methodist Church New York Conference; the Rev. Wilburn C. West, Eastern States Mission President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints; the Rev. W. Scott Morton, Director of New York's Presbyterian University Christian Foundation; Catholic Bishops Leo A. Pursley of Fort Wayne, Aloysius J. Willinger of Monterey-Fresno, Calif., and John King...