Word: covertly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tactics of Tyranny" Up the first day of the Assembly jumped a Philadelphia commissioner to challenge the seating of three Machenite commissioners, all members of the rebel Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions. Retiring Moderator William Chalmers Covert referred the matter to the Committee on Polity, which after four days of solemn deliberation set off a churchly furor by voting 21-to-1 to unseat the challenged three for their refusal to obey the 1934 Assembly's orders, resign from the Independent Board. Furiously cried one of them, Philadelphia's Rev. H. McAllister Griffiths: "The machine may find...
Though Fundamentalists repeatedly talk of a Presbyterian "machine," few speak up in meeting to give it a name and address. Last month the Presbyterian Banner, anti-Fundamentalist weekly, made bold to list some able machine men: Dr. Covert, Dr. McDowell, Stated Clerk Lewis Seymour Mudge, Dr. Robert Elliott Speer, Dr. Charles Rosenbury Erdman, President Joseph Ross Stevenson of Princeton Theological Seminary, Dr. Hugh Thomson Kerr, Dr. Mark Allison Matthews-onetime Moderators all. If these Presbyterians represent a machine, it is because they stick together, see to it that Assemblies run smoothly, unite in a conservative distaste for extreme Fundamentalism. Last...
...misprinting Phi for Psi, TIME offers apologies where due.-ED. Appreciative Moderator Sirs: I appreciate very much your interesting comments in TIME [June 4] in re the 146th General Assembly which several friends had forwarded, not knowing that I began TIME with Volume 1, No. 1. WILLIAM CHALMERS COVERT...
Under the brisk gavel of Dr. William Chalmers Covert, its new Moderator, the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. wound up in Cleveland last week its annual General Assembly. Work done...
...Cleveland brandishing threats. Liberals and moderate conservatives squelched them in electing a moderator, in dealing with their "Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions," and this week were expected to trounce them in voting a merger with the United Presbyterian Church. Out of a field of three, Dr. William Chalmers Covert of Philadelphia was elected moderator on the second ballot. A conservative, he has specialized in religious education, is to retire at 70 this year from the secretaryship of the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education which he assumed a decade ago. When William Covert was born on an Indiana farm...