Word: youngdahl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...righteous pastor-and when congregational policy allows it, they sometimes do so. In the Boston suburb of Newton, the Rev. Frank Weiskel of the First Congregational Church was dismissed soon after he and a visiting Negro minister sang We Shall Overcome from the pulpit. Last February, the Rev. William Youngdahl of Omaha's Augustana Lutheran Church was forced to resign his charge after congregants protested his involvement in local civil rights work. And in Evanston, Ill., the Rev. Emory G. Davis this month left his church, after being repeatedly urged by parishioners to stick to the work...
...candidacy, is about as old as politics itself. In 1860, Abraham Lincoln's aides promised Political Boss Simon Cameron a place as Secretary of War in return for the Republican convention backing of Cameron's key Pennsylvania delegation. In 1951, President Harry Truman appointed Minnesota Republican Luther Youngdahl to a federal district judgeship (a position he still holds) to remove Youngdahl from an impending contest with Democrat Hubert Humphrey for the U.S. Senate...