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During the War a crowd of patriots was gathered in old Madison Square Garden to hear the president of Princeton University, President Woodrow Wilson's successor in that office, speak. The crowd saw a benign, slightly-built man walk on the platform, heard him say drowsily: ''I am for peace at any price." They clambered to their feet, booed. Then they heard him add brightly: "But in this case the price of peace is war!" They cheered, cheered, cheered...
...took him to a police station, booked him for disorderly conduct, but did not jail him. The commotion was an eruption of long-burning fires within Bishop Manning's diocese. Many of his clergy dislike him as a bishop. To the run of New York Episcopalians he seems benign; to intimates he seems charming; to the clergy who disagree with his authority he seems tyrannical. His dissenting clergy heckle him every opportunity they get. Last month when he declaimed on the Catholicism of the Protestant Episcopal church they attacked him (TIME, Nov. 17). And they really caused last Sunday...
Sirs: "Pop" Frank S. Fosdick benign, sage, well-loved father of Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick-"Timalysed" in your issue of Oct. 6, was for years (28) principal of Hasten Park High School {Continued on p. 12) in Buffalo. He showed many an adolescent striveling the way to learn, to live, to attain. . . . Never was "Pop" Fosdick, Superintendent of the Buffalo Schools, as you state erroneously on p. 71. N. B. I believe his father held the office of Superintendent of Schools for a time...
...bitter nationalism is diametrically opposed to that benign internationalism focused in Pope Pius XI, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church...
...make Reno famed for its divorces. Most petitioners prefer Judge Bartlett to Judge Thomas F. Moran, who is reputed to dig too deep into marital conditions, to quibble over the custody of children. Over 60, Judge Bartlett is happily married, the father of three daughters and a son. Short, benign, he wears his long white hair bobbed across the back, bald in front. He smokes a pipe, carries a light cane, affects black string neckties and Quakerish felt hat. He lives three blocks from the courthouse in a big rambling house, open to all, keeps no servant, is familiarly called...