Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boone, she was educated in Louisiana convents, worked for New Orleans and Manhattan newspapers, has lived in Paris, Majorca, Berlin, Vienna, Mexico City, where Calles' official cameraman used her shapely legs as models for a cinema short on shoes. In 1931 she went to Berlin on a Guggenheim Fellowship, met Göring, Goebbels, Hitler, whom she considers "detestable and dangerous," moved to Paris, where she lived for five years. Last year she divorced her first husband, married Albert Russel Erskine Jr., English professor and business manager of The Southern Review...
...economic and political hard-shells. Eleven years ago one of the oldest and richest churches in Chattanooga, Tenn., Third Presbyterian, called a Scottish-born-and-burred clergyman who was anything but shellbacked-Rev. Thomas B. Cowan. In 1934 Pastor Cowan held a meeting of a new, radical organization, the Fellowship of Southern Churchmen, later became its president. Thereupon 22 Chattanoogans seceded from Third Church. More left when Mr. Cowan helped organize labor unions, worked among sharecroppers, invited a Negro to a church dinner. Of late the chief listeners to Pastor Cowan's Sunday sermons have been newcomers and strangers...
This week Mr. Cowan moved to a more congenial pulpit. He had accepted a call to the Community Church of TVA's model town of Norris, Tenn. In this nondenominational, New Dealish church he could continue the activities which have made his Fellowship an example, mostly horrible, to Southern churchgoers...
...Meantime, at the other end of Tennessee, in Memphis, a colleague of Mr. Cowan was doing likewise. Lean-&-hungry-looking Rev. Howard ("Buck") Kester, secretary of the Fellowship, appeared at a meeting of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union, preached a "funeral sermon" over a "coffin" (a black cigar box) representing the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing & Allied Workers Association (C. I. O. union), from which S.T.F.U. had broken off (TiME, March 20). Said "Buck" Kester: "I have racked my memory for something good to say about the deceased, but I have found none...
...Fellowship of Southern Churchmen made no reply. Since its founding it has been on record against "a growing fascist spirit within the Southern States, evidenced in floggings, teachers' oaths . . . concentration camps, vigilante service of deputized landowners and hoodlums in certain sections. . . ." The Fellowship is for: "The right of freedom of the pulpit which is historically identified with the prophetic character of the Judaic and Christian religions...