Word: week
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Professor Fred Neher, 62, for 38 years a Princeton faculty member; at Princeton, N. J.; after a three-week illness. Wartime consultant of U. S. Chemical Warfare Service of the Bureau of Mines, he devised antidotes for poison gases...
...Last week the name of Preacher Fosdick's church ceased to be a misnomer. At a meeting of the congregation in the completed portion of the new $4,000,000 edifice which most-famed-member-of-the-congregation John Davison Rockefeller Jr. is building at Riverside Drive and 122nd Street (TIME, Dec. 31). it was announced that the Riverside Church was now its legal title. Though the alteration of title was agreed upon a year ago, no legal action could be taken until a New York State law preventing a religious corporation from changing its name was amended...
Observers waited all last week to see what answer U. S. Protestants might make to a Vatican pronouncement of last fortnight credited to the Pope in person. Said the Pope: "Protestantism is getting more and more exhausted. . . . Behold Catholicism, which shines in the clear light, while Protestantism goes from denial to denial, rendering ever more intense in many souls that follow the invitation of truth a homesickness for returning to Catholicism...
...churchmen who listened to the buzz last September when Rev. William St. John Blackshear, Brooklyn Episcopalian, discouraged the attendance of Negroes in his church, noted that Parson Blackshear did not actually disbar any Negro from his congregation (TIME, Sept. 30). Last week a more pointed incident of the same sort gave churchmen something more to buzz about. Pastor Adelbert J. Helm of Detroit's Bethel Evangelical Church announced his resignation. Reason: his church council's refusal of membership to a Negro man, a Negro woman...
...Last week, at dinner in Manhattan's Pennsylvania Hotel, the Christian Herald award was given to a layman: Fred B. Smith, moderator of the National Council of Congregational Churches, chairman of the U. S. section of the World Alliance for International Friendship, ardent Prohibitionist. Said the Association: "You have been chosen because the Christian Church for more than 40 years has had in you a demonstration of what can be wrought by a layman who is wholly given to the purposes of Christ." Moderator Smith, Mrs. Smith (his second) will sail for Palestine Feb. 16 on S. S. Calgarie...