Word: archbishops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...territorial expansion. Deciding to correct abuses on the part of the ecclesiastical courts, he began well by declaring at Clarendon Palace his "Constitutions of Clarendon" which imposed reasonable restraints, but he fell out with Thomas a Becket, the up-&-coming young churchman whom he had promoted to be Archbishop of Canterbury. The resulting imbroglio with the Church was too hot for King Henry to handle; he ate crow and purchased absolution from the Pope...
...Emolument of the Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England, the Most Rev. Dr. Cosmo Gordon Lang for his reading of the Angelican service "to love, cherish and obey...
Twenty months ago Lord Linlithgow assumed chairmanship of Parliament's Joint Select India Committee: 16 members of the House of Lords, including a onetime Viceroy (the Marquess of Reading), and the Archbishop of Canterbury; and 16 members of the House of Commons, including Sir Austen Chamberlain and Laborite Miss Mary Pickford, who has since died. Their duty was to tie up the loose ends left by seven years of plodding British efforts to find for India a more liberal but not too liberal status...
...Archbishop of Canterbury is a suave, handsome Anglican who lives in Lambeth Palace, goes yachting with J. P. Morgan, takes tea with George V, signs himself Cosmo Cantuar,* and has a Presbyterian brother who, it was announced last week, is to become moderator of the Church of Scotland...
...course of a final ineffectual episode, the protagonist...answers with foul insults and returns determinedly to the woman he loves. At this very moment an inexplicable accident separates them forever, and the man is last seen throwing a burning tree out of the window, a large agricultural implement, an archbishop, a giraffe, feathers...