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...Stony Brook, L. I., headed by Dr. William Jay Schieffelin of Manhattan's Citizens' Union, assisted by Presidents Henry Noble MacCracken of Vassar College and Frank P. Graham of University of North Carolina, President Oliver La Farge of the American Association on Indian Affairs, Editor Guy Emery Shipler of the Churchman...
...Spain's Bishops this week was addressed an open letter which few of them would very likely ever see. It was signed by 150 U. S. Protestant churchmen and pedagogs, men of the calibre of Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, John Dewey, Dr. Daniel Alfred Poling, Editor Guy Emery Shipler of the Churchman, Methodist Bishop James Chamberlain Baker of San Francisco, President William Allan Neilson of Smith College. Agitated as U. S. churchmen often are with the moral aspects of foreign affairs, the letter signers felt that the Spanish pastoral needed rebutting...
Long before the Roman Catholic Church deployed its forces for a well-publicized attack on the cinema industry and launched its Legion of Decency, U. S. Protestantism had produced many an able independent warrior. One such was Dr. Guy Emery Shipler, editor of The Churchman, liberal Episcopal fortnightly, oldest (131 years) religious journal in English. Munching popcorn and pounding out Churchman editorials on his typewriter, Dr. Shipler called Tsar Will Hays a "window-dresser" and "office boy'' in 1929, later smoked out the fact that on the Hays payroll were two employes of the Federal Council of Churches...
...Churchman, which promptly published a retraction when it discovered its bad blunder, were sued for libel by Gabriel Hess, general counsel for the Hays organization. From the cinema paper this spring Mr. Hess won damages for $5,200. Last month a Supreme Court jury in Manhattan found Dr. Shipler and his fortnightly jointly guilty of libel, assessed them $10,000 for punitive damages, $200 for actual damages to Lawyer Hess...
...place as a mouse in the communion cup is $10,200 in the till of a church paper. Viewing the jury's verdict ruinous, Editor Shipler this month splashed an announcement of his predicament on The Churchman's front cover in place of the usual cut or table of contents. Editor & Publisher's Marlen Edwin Pew, good friend of Dr. Shipler, helped launch a money-raising drive. The Christian Century, exclaiming "This Shall Not Happen!'' devoted its lead editorial last week to the matter. And other religious papers fell in line, unanimously convinced that they...