Word: chaplain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Callahan, "Bishop of the Bowery," chaplain at Manhattan's Tombs Prison: "There were 44 saloons in the Bowery ten years ago. There isn't one today. Hundreds of men there were homeless and friendless. Today they' ve got homes, wives, children, bank accounts, automobiles, radios and life insurance. I hope and pray to God Almighty that the 18th Amendment will be kept in the Constitution...
When the Rev. Elliot Warne left his snug little parish in England to go to France as an earnest, sensitive, high-minded chaplain, he could not have picked a worse time. He joined his unit, an artillery brigade in Cough's Fifth Army, in the spring of 1918, four hours before Ludendorff launched his spring offensive. The first barrage shattered Chaplain Warne's nerve. For the next three weeks of nightmare, as the lines bent daily backward but never quite broke, he was in an increasing agony of bewildered fear and uselessness. Said one of the mess: "This...
Conceived as a "Cathedral of the Air" by the Rev. Gill Robb Wilson of Trenton, N. J., onetime National Chaplain of the American Legion, the chapel's solemn purpose is to memorialize the U. S. military dead, particularly those of the aviation service. Under the auspices of the New Jersey American Legion, famed Philadelphia Architect Paul Phillipe Cret has prepared plans for a sturdy Norman-Gothic edifice with a steep-gabled carillon tower, suggesting the village churches of France. A minute side chapel, seating possibly a score, will have altar vessels of duralumin salvaged from the wreck of the Naval...