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...Bratenahl, Ohio...
...from Ohio, friend of F.D.R.'s, sponsor of New Deal reforms (Home Loan Bank Act, Securities Exchange Act), who lost his seat in 1938 to Robert A. Taft, after which he retired from politics, returned to a successful Cleveland law practice; of a heart attack; in Bratenahl, Ohio...
...temper and loss of dignity and some old bankers called him a radical. But when he was defeated for re-election in 1914, he resumed an orderly Cleveland career, as chairman of the Morris Plan Bank, ardent supporter of local opera, squire of a lakefront estate in Bratenahl, swankest of the city's 41 suburbs. The angel of Ohio's Democracy during the lean '20s, he asserted himself by running for an unexpired Senate term as a Wet in 1930, won by so large a margin that he was talked of for the 1932 Presidential nomination...
Year ago when the Cathedral Chapter met for general assembly, Dean Bratenahl, enfeebled at 73, had lately suffered an attack of coronary thrombosis. The Chapter, a board of trustees including such Episcopalians as onetime Senator George Wharton Pepper, onetime Under Secretary of State William Richards Castle, onetime Ambassador to Great Britain Alanson Bigelow Houghton, retired Bishop Philip Mercer Rhinelander, Canon Anson Phelps Stokes, Senate Chaplain ZeBarney Thorne Phillips, was asked on the motion of Trustee Pepper to terminate Dean Bratenahl's incumbency, tender him the offices of dean emeritus and titular chairman of the building committee. With...
...until last month did Dean Bratenahl bring his controversy with the Chapter into the open. Then, in The Cathedral Age, a quarterly published by the National Cathedral Association, appeared a letter from him declaring that he had been "deposed," that the office of clean emeritus was "contrary to the established traditions of the Church," that he was not getting his full salary since two 10% pay cuts had not been restored...