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...employees. Last week the directors said no. Then the board informed the press that "to increase [the] deficit by meeting further demands . . . would be imprudent to the point of irresponsibility." And with that, the board of directors called off the season. Said Opera Association President Charles M. Spofford: "I guess the unions just didn't take us seriously...
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Well does the C. L. I. D. know that to many a churchman its sponsorship of Malvern would, thanks to its left-wing label, be more of a hindrance than a help. Led by its lean, kinetic executive secretary, the Rev. William Benjamin Spofford, it cheerfully voted to turn over its findings to the more official joint commission set up last October by the Episcopal General Convention and headed by liberal, well-liked Bishop William Scarlett of Missouri...
...Bishop Beverley D. Tucker of Ohio, such unsubversive characters as Methodist Bishop Francis John McConnell of New York, Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr of Union Theological Seminary (chairman of the Council)-and a couple of sure-enough fellow travelers, Methodist Rev. Dr. Harry Frederick Ward and Episcopalian Rev. William Benjamin ("Bill") Spofford. One William Ball, leader of Cleveland's Young Americanist League, fee-fi-fo-fummed for the G-Men to investigate this "Red Christian Front." An officious "Director of Americanism" of the American Legion announced: "What we want to do is to make sure that the good American churchmen...