Word: chaplain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elections, Resolutions. To be commander-in-chief of the United Spanish War Veterans, succeeding U. S. Senator Rice W. Means of Colorado, was elected John J. Garrity of Chicago. Other officers elected: W. L. Grayson, vice com-mander-in-chief; Peter O'Shea, surgeon general; Allen P. Wilson, chaplain in chief...
...Boston, later (under Bishop Phillips Brooks) an Episcopal rector who was made a missionary bishop and sent to the Philippines because of his earnest simplicity, rugged strength and adaptability among people of other races, it was Bishop Brent who confirmed General Pershing in the Philippines and subsequently became Chaplain-in-Chief...
...champion of divorce. Dr. Silver's divorce took place a long time ago. He has never remarried and has stricken mention of an unhappy episode of his youth from public records of his life. His reputation is high and enviable, as Nebraska pastor (1894-1901), as; U. S. Army chaplain (1901-10), as mission secretary for the southwestern U. S. (1910-13), as chaplain of West Point...
...Right Reverend Bishop James Edward Cowell Welldon, 72, Dean of Durham, onetime (1892-98) Chaplain in Ordinary to Queen Victoria, Headmaster of Harrow School (1885-98), Bishop of Calcutta and Metropolitan of India (1898-1902), translator of various works of Aristotle: "It is difficult for me to understand how educated men and women can find pleasure in hunting and killing animals...
Such was the prayer offered last week by Mrs. Chaplain General Matthew Brewster of New Orleans, for deceased national officers, state regents and the 2,067 death roll of the Daughters of the American Revolution, who last week held their 36th "Continental .Congress," at Washington...