Word: shepherded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Henderson nor Moore are innkeepers at heart. They started out after World War I with $1,000 and a vague desire to refute those muckrakers who argued that no business could grow big without violating ethical standards. In 1931, after trying every thing from radio manufacturing to importing German shepherd dogs, they set up one of the nation's first mutual funds, and in the course of making investments for it acquired the struggling Stonehaven Hotel in Springfield, Mass. Impressed with the swiftness with which the Stonehaven's earnings responded to rigorous management, they bought more hotels...
During his first worship service at Broad way Presbyterian, he introduced his Ger man shepherd dog to the congregation from the pulpit - a gesture that delighted children in attendance, but to Merriam's enemies seemed evidence of emotional immaturity. More seriously, they accuse him of lack of judgment. The principal evidence: an incident of last August, when Merriam, on behalf of a self-exiled Iranian scholar, telephoned a State Department official, surreptitiously tape-recorded the conversation, then played the recording -which included some off-the-cuff remarks by the official about Iran's corruption - to a reporter...
...March 1961, after a two-year search for a minister, Broadway Presbyterian's congregation voted to "call" (invite) Merriam as their next pastor. Despite misgivings about his fundamentalism, the presbytery approved the choice and almost immediately found reasons to regret it. Merriam brought his huge German shepherd Blitz into the pulpit at a children's service. He earned a brief notoriety by tape-recording a telephone conversation with a State Department official about the problems of an exile from Iran, then playing the tape-including the official's off-the-cuff criticisms of Iranian corruption...
...storefronts, says the Rev. Everett Francis, rector of the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd in Dearborn Township near Detroit, "stand in judgment upon us. They go to the people-they express an interest, a concern we don't always show except in an academic...
...Angeles ^ Reader Colton (born Louis Morelli) can also be seen playing a poor shepherd in It Happened in Athens...