Word: 49th
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...amity, Calvin Coolidge congratulated Neguest Tafari Makonnen on his coronation as King of Ethiopia, talked to King Alfonso of Spain over a new transatlantic wireless telephone, pressed a button opening the 11th Maui county fair in Hawaii, made a speech on "material and spiritual welfare" before the 49th General Triennial Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church,? in Washington...
...great sub rosa concern of Protestant Episcopal bishops, priests, laymen who met at Washington last week for their 49th triennial convention was hierarchy. Nominally the bishops are co-equal with John Gardner Murray of Maryland as presiding bishop. But a growing faction of Episcopalians love regimentation. Particularly the Anglicans among them talk of creating archbishops. Others oppose them tooth and claw. Of this denominational stress little appeared when the convention opened last week and little of anything else. The time was spent shaking hands and preparing for contest of the next week...
...before his death M. Bokanowski lunched with Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré and the whole cabinet. The occasion was festive. M. Poincaré was celebrating the cabinet's second anniversary. Simultaneously was celebrated M. Bokanowski's 49th birthday...
...Pierpont Morgan, a godly man as well as a wealthy one, offered to bear the expense of issuing a new Standard Book of Common Prayer, to be presented to the 49th Episcopal convention, next October, in Washington, D. C. The revised prayer manual will omit the word obey from the marriage ceremony and it will contain a shortened form of the ten commandments. In other respects, except for perfection of minute typographical failures as far as is now known, it will conform to the revised Episcopal prayer manual which Mr. Morgan's father paid for in 1892, and which...
...Council of the League of Nations sat-for the 49th time-at Geneva, last week. Seldom have Great Powers been more thoroughly flouted by Minor Nations than during the proceedings which ensued. The Powers were represented, of course, by the Big Five: 1) Sir Austen Chamberlain (Britain), supercilious to correspondents but ready with a queer, cackling laugh for his colleagues; 2) Monsieur Aristide Briand (France), tousled and heavy eyed as a tomcat at dawn; 3) Dr. Gustav Stresemann (Germany), plump, bald, rubicund, and yet with a trig, indefinable air of smartness; 4)Signor Vittorio Scialoja (Italy), representing with compact, bustling...