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...Mass., then successively help celebrate the 300th anniversary of the first landing of Swedes in America, at Wilmington, Del.; lay the cornerstone of the Federal building at the New York World's Fair; visit Gettysburg for the Battle's 75th anniversary; go to Marietta, Ohio for the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Northwest Territory; go calling in seven other States where his presence may help political friends up for election this autumn...
...Philadelphia's musty old Witherspoon Building, directs the activities of the church, answers hard questions on church law, handles all documents, acts as a one-man committee on Assembly arrangements and the credentials of delegates. Last week, with Stated Clerk Mudge about to retire at 70, the 150th Assembly, in Philadelphia, prepared to elect his successor. Obvious choice was a big-jawed, heavy-set Presbyterian who had worked in the "Vatican" since 1903-Rev. Dr. William Barrow Pugh, 49, of Chester, Pa., nephew of Stated Clerk Roberts and assistant since 1922 of Stated Clerk Mudge...
Like a business merger, a church merger requires the tactful employment of special techniques. Last week in Philadelphia, at its 150th annual General Assembly, the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A heartened hopers for church unity by its mastery of both tact and tactics. Ever since the Civil War this church has remained separated from the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. (South). Last week, winding up their General Assembly in Meridian. Miss., Southern Presbyterians approved the work of their committee which is negotiating a reunion with the Northern church. And in Philadelphia. for the first time in nearly...
...Presbyterians run 53 colleges in the U. S., maintain Presbyterian centres in 52 more. Outstanding Presbyterian colleges: Centre, Davidson, Hamilton, Lafayette, Washington & Jefferson.* Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Presbyterian Church (North), its Board of Christian Education intends to spend the next three years raising $10,000,000 for the endowment and running expenses of these 105 colleges and Presbyterian centres. Last week the Presbyterians announced that the first gift to their Sesquicentennial Fund came from an Episcopalian. Rt. Rev. Robert Lewis Paddock, retired bishop of Oregon, donated...
Speaking last night at the Faneuil Hall exercises to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Massachusett's constitutional ratification, George H. Earle '11, Governor of Pennsylvania, New Dealer, and keen presidential aspirant, disclaimed that he had a desire to be the 1940 Democratic nominee...