Word: tilton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...packed in the parishioners at Brooklyn's big Plymouth Church for 23 years. Then, at 57, and at the peak of his influence, he was accused of practicing what he preached against. "On the night of July 3, 1870,'' writes Author Robert Shaplen. "Elizabeth Richards Tilton, a small, dark-haired woman of 35, the mother of four children, confessed to her husband, Theodore, that she had committed adultery with her pastor, the Reverend Henry Ward Beecher...
...since the last century, when Henry Ward Beecher kissed Mrs. Tilton, has fashionable Brooklyn Heights, N.Y. had a clergyman as controversial as the Rev. William Howard Melish, 44. Melish, an ardent, undeviating representative of the far, far left, has joined, helped found or led almost a score of organizations long since discredited by Communist infiltration. Melish's politics forced his father, the Rev. John Howard Melish, out of his job as rector at Brooklyn's Holy Trinity Episcopal Church. The younger Melish hangs on as acting pastor in his father's church only because the bishop cannot...
...rest of the first ten were Arnie Howe of Kirkland, fourth; Ivan Nabakov of Lowell, fifth, Guide Peroira of Eliot, sixth; John Tilton of Dunster, seventh; Bob Swett of Eliot, eighth; Dick Hooke of Dudley, ninth; and Al Joyce of Adams, tenth...
...Tilton (pop. 2,062), where-the Republican voters include a high proportion of prosperous, middle-class Yankees, all the influential Republican leaders were for Taft. Before he made his speech there, Tilton was considered a Taft stronghold. There was no Eisenhower organization. The vote: Eisenhower 161, Taft 153. At Berlin (pop. 16,545), a paper-mill town in the far north, Candidate Harold Stassen spoke to 800 and the next night Taft talked to 1,200. The vote: Eisenhower 933, Stassen 814, Taft...
...Your article about Canada was exciting. I knew Canada was going places, but I hadn't realized that it had gone so far . . . JACK SHAVER Tilton...