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...report to his 48,000 stockholders, Procter & Gamble Board Chairman Richard R. Deupree last week preached a short sermon on U.S. industrial efficiency. Said he: "With wages and taxes equivalent to 40 times the wages and taxes of 66 years ago, with raw material prices three times what they were, a cake of soap [Ivory] that cost 5? in 1885 costs less than 10? today. That's a solid contribution to the American standard of living...
...frantic bid for holding machine-ridden big cities in the approaching hot Presidential race," he said. "It is a deplorable resort to expediency,, which utterly disregards our historical constitutional American system of separation of church and state." Truman's pastor, the Rev. Edward Hughes Pruden, said in a sermon (which the President did not hear) that he had done "all that it was possible for anyone to do" to dissuade
...about the way the people of Grace & St. Paul's feel about John and Carole Urich. When the time came early this month for the secret ballot on whether to make him permanent pastor, the vote was unanimous. Last week John Urich was installed. Title of his first sermon: "Miracles Still Happen...
Throughout the speech Father Feeney had been bothered by the noise from a loudspeaker a few hundred yards down on the Common which blared out a hellfire revival sermon. That and the heckling finally seemed to break him down. His voice cracked as he yelled, "I get up here to teach the true faith and I get called every dirty rotten filthy name that your foul minds can think of. People try to disturb me. they come down here and call me Mr. Feeney"--then someone shouted from the crowd, "Even that's too good for you." Feeney yelped back...
Before Father Feeney wound up his sermon with an impassioned prayer, he said, "We're going to be here every Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock for the rest of the fall and winter. We're going to come out here and show God that there are some who still believe in the true faith. We're going to keep teaching and praying...