Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time for tact on the bishop's part. All factions must be placated while the campaign for funds to complete the great cathedral was going on so Bishop Manning tactfully retained Dean Howard Chandler Robbins, who had been nominated by his predecessor. Broad dean and High bishop, they labored side by side in the vineyard, and the money came rolling in. During these years, now and then there were tiffs, but nothing critical. The skeleton of high-church Anglophilism never once so much as twittered. And finally the Gothic dream was fairly funded...
...diplomatic. When the Anglo-Catholic Congress met in Manhattan last fall he went openly to preside over it. That congress was so "high" that it looked to some quite Romish?what with masses, and talk of the rosary, and of prayer for the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Broad-churchmen were affronted...
...cathedral, meanwhile. Bishop Manning began to carry things with what some people called a high hand. Church organs of Broad leanings criticized the bishop as "monarchic," as "magnifying his office to a mediaeval portentousness...
Bishop Manning was vexed. He not only accepted Mr. Bernardin's resignation from the choir school, but also demanded that Dean Robbins dismiss the saucy clergyman as his assistant. And thus at last, with years of repressed vexation seething in them, Broad dean and High bishop faced each other on a definite issue...
...Babcock, then chairman of the Mutual Life Insurance Co., was shown that the bank's old charter was very broad, and hence useful. Quickly he reorganized the guaranty & indemnity company as a guaranty trust company. Its capital then (1891) was $100,000, its surplus $720, its undivided profits nil, its deposits nil. Six months later capital was $2,000,000, deposits more than $1,000,000. Thereafter (the corporate name was changed to Guaranty Trust Co. in 1895) growth was sedate, based on insurance policy loans and railroads trusteeships. That is, until Morgan Partner Davison took hold...