Word: virgin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Welcomed the governors of 47 states and of Alaska, Guam, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands to Washington (for a conference) at a full-dress White House dinner...
...black-suited group lined up on Arlington street behind a wooden Crucifix and a large painting of the Virgin Mary and at 3:30 began their silent march across the Common...
...back seat of a crimson Chevrolet convertible and headed a brass-band parade up the Kronprindsensgade (Crown Prince Street) and down the Dronningensgade (Queen Street). At the Emancipation Garden where the Danes* freed their slaves in 1848, he was sworn in as the first Republican governor of the Virgin Islands (pop. 26,665, of whom 91% are of Negro or mixed blood...
...Solitude. Back in the U.S., Van Dusen was licensed by the New York Presbytery, and almost at once found himself involved in the controversy then raging between the Fundamentalists and their liberal opponents. On the ground that young Van Dusen declined to affirm the literal Biblical account of the virgin birth, a conservative-minded judicial commission of the Presbyterian General Assembly challenged the right of the Presbytery to ordain him. The issue dragged on for two years before his ordination was officially recognized, with the help of a brief in his support by a Presbyterian lawyer named John Foster Dulles...
...thought that the board was right, and that the young ministers were too "interdenominational" for comfort. "I am told," said one minister angrily, "that a Jewish rabbi has been invited to speak at a Sunday night [student] forum." Added another: "A man who doesn't believe in the virgin birth is no more a Baptist than the Pope of Rome...