Word: mcpherson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charles Jaynes Jr.'s parents, both preachers in Aimee Semple McPherson's organization, claim he is the world's youngest minister. Ordained last year by the International Ministerial Federation (TIME, Aug. 2), he has preached all over the U. S., drawing 15,000 to a revival in Boston. But he had never solemnized a wedding. He practiced marrying his father and mother, finally got Miss Brinkman and Mr. Hoffman as his first clients. Last week the Hoffmans honeymooned confident that they were legally married, for, as Mrs. Hoffman admitted to vigilant newshawks a week after the ceremony...
...Ohio State's campus was keen young J. Lewis Morrill, once a newspaperman and now university vice president. Last week the university's board of trustees met to appoint Dr. Rightmire's successor. Then newsmen hurried to the house of 74-year-old Professor-Emeritus William McPherson, former dean of the Graduate School, to startle him with the news that he had been elected the university's acting president...
...James R. McPherson -- Miss Helen Lewis, Beverly...
...Peoria, Ill., Rev. Dr. Beryl Gilbert Drake, an evangelist trained under Aimee Semple McPherson, runs Trinity Tabernacle, speaks over the radio, publishes a weekly paper for his devoted flock. As head of Trinity Tabernacle Corp. he is entitled under an Illinois charter to ordain ministers. One night last week 1.500 people packed Trinity Tabernacle to behold Evangelist Drake perform his 15th ordination. While the candidate knelt before him the evangelist spoke routine words of blessing. Then Dr. Drake lifted the newly created minister to a chair behind the pulpit and a middle-aged woman who had been hovering...
...mother of the new redeemer of the world. It was to be an immaculate conception." Judge Yankwich: "Who was to be the Holy Ghost?" Witness Jewett: "Mr. Hunt didn't say."* After several days of such maundering testimony, with Attorney MacBeth subpoenaing but not delivering Aimee Semple McPherson as an "expert"' witness, Defendant Hunt was convicted and sentenced to three years in prison...