Word: stevensons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...LEIGH STEVENSON New York...
...this conference went many a famed church-unionist and several non-unionists. Among famed churchmen present were Dr. Joseph Ross Stevenson. President of Princeton Theological Seminary; Yale's Divinity Dean Luther Allan Weigle; Dr. Samuel McCrea Cavert, General Secretary of the Federal Council of Churches; Dr. Daniel Alfred Poling, editor-in-chief of the Christian Herald; Dr. William Adams Brown, Vice President of Union Theological Seminary, who recently married Col. Lindbergh and Miss Anne Morrow; Bishop James Cannon Jr.; Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman. Outstanding among laymen were Swarthmore's Philosopher-Professor Jesse Herman Holmes and President Frank...
Annulled. The marriage of General Giuseppe ("Peppino") Garibaldi, famed Italian soldier-of-fortune, and Madelyn Nichols Taylor Garibaldi, Manhattan socialite; in Nyack, N. Y. Reason: argument over the legality of Mrs. Garibaldi's divorce (Mexican) from her first husband, Stevenson Pierce Taylor...
Princeton. Convening in St. Paul, the 141st Presbyterian General Assembly settled the four-year fight over the management of Princeton Theological Seminary, greatest Presbyterian seminary in the U. S. Over the protests of Fundamentalists, who feared the move would unduly strengthen the hand of liberal Dr. Joseph Ross Stevenson, the president, it was voted to vest control of the seminary in a single joint board instead of the present dual control of trustees and directors. Those in favor insisted they were doing "nothing whatever which will tend to alter the distinctive doctrinal position which the seminary has maintained throughout...
...Tokyo lately, 400 university students were asked by the house committee of an English-speaking society to decide by ballot which were the Ten Greatest Englishmen. The plan: to hang portraits of the Big Ten in the society's clubhouse. The students elected the following Big Ten: Robert Louis Stevenson, Admiral Nelson, Ramsay MacDonald, George Bernard Shaw, Edward I., David Lloyd George, Shakespeare, Darwin, Adam Smith, Pitt the Younger...