Word: richmond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This militant mouthful was spoken by ex-Captain Charles Killian Woltz, 32, on behalf of a team of 50 Lutheran war veterans in Richmond, Va. It all began in a veterans' Sunday-school class, which soon turned into a weekly bull session on the state of the world judged by Christian standards. Like most honest men, the ex-G.I.s found the world's state parlous. They decided to do something about it. Church attendance was poor-an average 280 per service out of a confirmed membership of almost 1,000. The veterans' plan: to jog their...
Amiable, soft-spoken Chairman Woltz, who was onetime editor of the University of Virginia's famed Law Review, and commanded a Negro antiaircraft battery in the Pacific, is also campaigning to reform Richmond's antiquated city government. Said he last week: "We are determined not to be just another Sunday-school class. We definitely want some action and are going to keep doing something...
...Class of 1943: Malcolm Magoun Ferguson, Richmond Nelson Hutchins, Louis Gerald-Varet Hyde, Carl Hudson Imlay, Charles William Mulcahy Jr., Ralph Eugene Snyder, Oliver Rowland Blanchard Stalter...
...Richmond, Calif...
...Davies spent a robust youth on his father's farm (he rode a bull calf at the age of two, wore out five motorcycles). He almost went into British politics, finally decided that "the crucial field was an honest, believable religion," was graduated from London University's Richmond College of Divinity in 1925. For three years he was a Methodist minister in London, then left for the U.S. and two consecutive pastorates in Maine...