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...founders of the St. Louis "Round Table" of the N. C. C. J. is Rabbi Ferdinand Myron Isserman, a big, sometimes brash Jewish liberal. Dr. Isserman's Temple Israel is across the way, on "Holy Corner," from two big Protestant churches, St. John's Methodist and Second Baptist. "Brotherhoods" of the three meet jointly. Last fortnight, at a Brotherhood meeting, Rabbi Isserman joined the two Protestant pastors in criticizing the Taylor appointment. He was quoted as saying it would result in "mutual encroachment" of Church and State...
...task and obligation of Christian leadership at the present time." Among those who signed: Episcopal Presiding Bishop Henry St. George Tucker; Episcopal Bishops William Scar lett of Missouri, George Craig Stewart of Chicago, Henry Wise Hobson of Southern Ohio, Edward Lambe Parsons of California, Henry Knox Sherrill of Massachusetts; Methodist Bishops Ivan Lee Holt of Dallas, Francis John McConnell of New York; Presidents Charles Seymour of Yale University, Mildred Helen McAfee of Wellesley College, Elizabeth Cutter Morrow (acting) of Smith College, John Alexander Mackay of Princeton Theological Seminary, Henry Sloane Coffin of Union Theological Seminary; Theologians Niebuhr, William Adams Brown...
Tall, ruddy, leathery Howard ("Stick") Bevis, 54, a Methodist and a Democrat, was born a farmer's boy in Bevis, Ohio, studied and taught law at University of Cincinnati, first won fame as a Cincinnati political reformer. At the urging of a classmate, Alma Murray, whom he eventually married, he got a woman elected to Cincinnati's school board for the first time, later helped clean up Cincinnati politics by drafting a new city-manager charter. His next big feat was to cut Ohio's budget from $86,000,000 to $48,000,000 as Governor George...
Dorothy Thompson's father was a British-born Methodist lay preacher. Had she followed his will, she would have gone into church work. Instead she became a newspaper pundit. No churchgoer today, Miss Thompson, with her soprano invective, is in some ways like an Old Testament prophet whose voice has not yet changed. Last week she uttered some prophecies for 1940. Among them...
...execution chamber at Sing Sing prison, on a fine June morning in 1904, a lanky, 30-year-old electrician named Robert Greene Elliott (son of a New York farmer who had intended him for the Methodist ministry) was testing current and equipment. With him was Executioner Davis. "Bob," said Davis casually, "I want you to throw the switch on one of the fellows this morning." Young Elliott turned hollow inside. "I've got to train two men to be executioners," Davis explained rapidly...