Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London Mary Welsh is likely to turn up for tea at Ambassador John Winant's austere flat -or arguing the Atlantic Charter with H. G. Wells-or eating fish pie in the Archbishop of Canterbury's sombre palace. You might find her talking with Labor Minister Ernest Bevin at the Trade Union Club-playing tennis with Ronald Tree of the Information Ministry-dining at the Savoy with Hore-Belisha. . . . She is probably the only woman who ever appeared at a formal Cliveden dinner in a tricked-up red bathrobe. (She had left all her clothes in Paris when...
...with a large family is the real heroine . . . of our civilization. She never stops working from morning till night. She has no remuneration for her work and it is her meals that are cut down first." With these words of his first speech to the House of Lords as Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. William Temple began to carry out the proposition he had made at Malvern (TIME, Jan 27, 1941) : "It is the business of Lambeth [the Archbishop's residence] to remind Westminster [the Houses of Parliament] of its responsibility...
Occasion for the Archbishop's stand was a Lords' debate on the question of granting allowances to big working-class families with small incomes. His own inquiries, said the Archbishop, had convinced him that large, low-income families need such aid, since the rise in living costs put them at a marked disadvantage and "in times of unemployment in many industries it was more profitable for a man with a large family to be unemployed than employed" (because of the dole...
Earlier that day the Church of England, led by the new Archbishop of Canterbury, the Roman Catholic Church, led by Arthur Cardinal Hinsley, and the various British free churches agreed to set up a joint standing committee to work out plans for common action in the social regeneration of England, issued a joint declaration...
Died. The Most Rev. Samuel Pritchard Matheson, 89, longtime Primate of the Church of England in Canada (1909-31), retired Archbishop of Rupert's Land; in Winnipeg...