Word: speer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fumed to himself: "Socialism, indeed!" Hastily next day, like a mother seeking to explain away a gaffe her child has uttered, the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A., in the persons of General Secretary Fred W. Ramsey and Board President Mrs. Robert E. Speer (respectively) explained that the report, Toward a New Economic Society, was no work of their organizations but a pamphlet published by the Economics Commission of the National Council of Student Christian Associations...
Quick to get facts, Northfield's President Elliott Speer was the first to ascertain that the estate had been grossly over-estimated in popular notion, that it would come to scarcely more than $30,000,000 and that the residue, to be divided on a percentage basis, might not be more than $20,000,000. Thus, Northfield's share would be only $300,000 and Nanking's about $3,500,000. Even so, it was a huge sum for a theological seminary in China (raising deep questions as to its proper use); but it was not the golden vision which...
...even in marriage must be regarded as a regrettable necessity. . . . Except where children are desired, married persons should remain celibate after marriage, as before." In this recommendation of abstinence, three of the 28 members of the Federal Council's Committee on Marriage and the Home concurred: Mrs. Robert Elliott Speer, president of the National Board of the Young Women's Christian Associations; Mrs. Orrin R. Judd, president of the Council of Women for Home Missions; and Dr. Howard Chandler Robbins of General Theological Seminary, Manhattan...
...Presbyterian General Council some time ago appointed a special committee to study the spiritual state of the Church. Members are: Moderator Dr. Hugh Thompson Kerr; Dr. William Chalmers Covert, Philadelphia; Dr. Robert Elliott Speer, Manhattan; Frederic B. Shipp, Pittsburgh; Stated Clerk Dr. Lewis Seymour Mudge, Philadelphia. Last week the committee made its first public act: dedicated Feb. 18 as a day of personal prayer for the 10,000 Presbyterian ministers...
Married. Constance Speer, of Manhattan, daughter of Evangelist Robert Elliott Speer, sister of President Elliott Speer of the Northfield Schools (see p. 26); and Dr. Robert F. Barbour of Edinburgh, Scotland; in Lakeville, Conn...