Word: bishops
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When Republicans and anti-Smith Democrats coalesced on Professor Brown and "a new era of humanity" was predicted (TIME, July 8), President Hoover wished the new group well, hoped it would hold his 1928 gains in the South. Underlying campaign issue: "Raskobism." The election meant the political unfrocking of Bishop James Cannon Jr., who was absent in Brazil when election day came. Governor-elect Pollard called his victory "a warning to those who may seek, for partisan purposes, to revive religious strife." Commented Senator Moses, Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman: "The Dutch have captured Holland...
Potent in downing the horrid thought that through Smith and Raskob the Democracy had been led into the camp of Mammon, was the pleasant effect of party affluence itself. Even more potent was last summer's disclosure that "Raskobism's" loudest foe, Bishop James Cannon Jr., of the Methodist-Episcopal Church, South, was himself messily involved with a Manhattan bucket-shop (TIME, July 1). At a South Georgia Methodist conference last week the Rev. Bascom Anthony of Thomasville, got a resolution adopted to reduce the tenure of service of Methodist Bishops from life to four years. Cried...
...Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ...
...Diocese of Southern Ohio is considered "broad." Broad was its recently-resigned Bishop Boyd Vincent; broad its Bishop-Coadjutor, now full Bishop Theodore Irving Reese. But more than broad, altogether too latitudinarian for most Episcopal tastes, is Bishop Paul Jones, "the bishop without a diocese," called last fortnight to Southern Ohio to carry on during Bishop Reese's illness (TIME, Nov.11). A pacifist, Bishop Jones is looked on by broad churchmen as Liberals eye a Red. Last week broad and high churchmen heaved sighs of relief when the diocesan convention of Southern Ohio elected Howard Chandler Robbins, onetime Dean...
...Dean Robbins. Though he was both too broad and too independent for the liking of his erstwhile superior, high-church Bishop William Thomas Manning of New York, he went last spring from his resigned deanship to teach in Manhattan's orthodox General Theological Seminary, principal training school of the Episcopal Church (TIME...