Word: chaplain
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...first films selected were a Russian film, "Alexander Nevsky," with its locale in thirteenth century Russian, and a series of Charlie Chaplain shorts. Both were made over thirty years...
Almost before any real pressure developed, Tennessee officials withdrew the Chaplain and Nesky films and substituted others...
...changed his name and fled to Switzerland. There, he got a job as chaplain of an Anglican church in Lausanne. When police caught up with him, he fled again, was finally caught in the mountain resort of Riffelberg masquerading as a Mr. Humphreys. Expelled from Switzerland as an undesirable alien, he was eventually found in Ceylon, boarding with a bishop and teaching at the Colombo Divinity School. Next stops: Singapore, Australia, Canada and finally the U.S. In 1950, he went back to Canada, but recrossed the border and took up illegal residence. Meanwhile, armed with faked credentials, he had done...
...basis of prewar army records, Korean soldiers do not bear much resemblance to a field that is white unto a chaplain's harvest. About 1.6% are Confucianists, 1.2% Buddhists, 4.6% Christians (mostly Presbyterians), and 92.6% are without any religious affiliation at all. But with the war came demands for the consolations of religion, and no chaplains to fill them. It was 1951 before a ROK chaplaincy corps was organized under the guidance of two veteran missionaries, Methodist Dr. William E. Shaw and Roman Catholic Monsignor George M. Carroll...
...father and a good rabbi. Born at Lissa, Posen, which was then part of Germany, he studied at Breslau and Berlin and in 1905 wrote a book, The Essence of Judaism, which is still being studied and translated into the world's languages. He served as a chaplain in the German army in World War I, then settled down in Berlin to write and tend his flock...