Word: universalist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bureau of Contraceptive Advice, only one outside of New York using an unmasked name), one each in Detroit, Minneapolis and Newark, ten in New York, one in Cleveland. The conferees pointed with satisfaction to recent endorsements of Birth Control -by the Junior League of New York City, the Universalist Church (last month), the Congregational Ministers of Connecticut, the Central Conference of America Rabbis (last June), the English National Council of Women (last month), the New York City Federation of Women's Clubs, the New York League of Women Voters.* Disclosed for the first time last week to the general...
Religionist Potter, onetime Bible expert for the defense in the famed Evolution trial at Dayton, Tenn. (1925), resigned a year ago from the Universalist Church. He has been a Baptist, a Unitarian. Short, clean-shaven, getting bald, fond of colored neckties, he has a voice which carries well...
Born in Cambridge, Mass., son of a Universalist pastor, Otis Skinner soon moved with his parents to Hartford, Conn. There he sketched passers-by on the streets, charged two pins for seats at plays in his cellar, made $3.75 by playing the harmonica in a public hall at prices of 15 and 25 cents. With a recommendation from Phineas Taylor Barnum, a family friend, he secured his first regular part, that of an aged Negro, in a melodrama at the old Philadelphia Museum (1877). He has since appeared in 325 plays, directing 33 of them. He was leading...
Their chief officers chosen, the commissioners of the Assembly proceeded to perilous business. What was to be done about many recent proposals for uniting the Presbyterian Church with other de nominations? The Presbyterians refused to consider amalgamation with such sects as Christian, Universalist and Congregational Churches, because doctrinal differences seemed too extreme to eliminate at this time. To the more consequential proposal which they had received from the Methodist Episcopal Church (TIME, May 21 ), the Presbyterians gave a warmer rejoinder. They elected a committee to confer during the year with a similar Methodist committee to see what could be done...
...more attentive than the usual run of juries. They are all Michiganders, all know that Mr. Ford makes automobiles-but none of them had ever heard of Mr. Sapiro before the suit. Their religious complexion is: four Roman Catholics, two Presbyterians, one Baptist, one Congregationalist, one. German Lutheran, one Universalist, one with "leanings to Christian Science," one (Mrs. Anna Brown) not asked concerning her religion. A couple of Jews (one Orthodox, one Reformed) and a man who had once joined the Ku Klux Klan out of curiosity were ousted after the original drawings...