Word: chaplains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 all but the foregoing members abstaining from voting, the Chapter thereupon retired Dean Bratenahl. To the press...
...years ago, handsome Noble Powell was an entomologist, investigating the boll weevil for the Department of Agriculture, before he went to the Uni-versity of Virginia and Virginia Theological Seminary, became a priest in 1921. As rector of St. Paul's Memorial Church near Charlottesville and Episcopal chaplain at the university, he missionized among both students and hillbillies in the nearby Ragged Mountains. For the past five years the highly successful rector of Emmanuel Church in downtown Baltimore, Dr. Powell lately declined to be nominated for bishop coadjutor of Michigan...
...with announcing election of a new dean, the Divinity School (Protestant Episcopal) in Philadelphia announced a new "clinical" course of study which will give its students the longest scholastic year -eleven months-of any in the U. S. To be administered by new Dean Allen Evans Jr., 46, Wartime chaplain and for the past nine years the successful rector of Trinity parish, Hewlett, L. I., the new plan provides for hospital, social service and prison work for the Divinity School's so-odd students, under the supervision of experienced physicians, hospital and prison chaplains, wardens, welfare workers...
...death house when his pardon arrives. Prison officials shriek the news at him. Eddie Taylor thinks their statement is a trick for his recapture. Too vivid in his mind is the manner in which he, innocent, was railroaded into his present plight. When the chaplain comes toward him in the fog, anxious to convince him that the pardon is authentic, Eddie shoots him. The chaplain stays on his feet long enough to call, "I'm not hit. Open the gates." Thus is the structure-laid for a crescendo seldom excelled in hoodlum stories since Public Enemy. Within its tighter...
...lately-deceased Catholics who might fit Father Feeney's specifications, and whose friends could be counted upon to push their saintly causes, the best known would be Wartime Chaplain Rev. Francis P. Duffy, Poet Joyce Kilmer (Trees) and Football Coach Knute Rockne. All are known to have lived impeccable Catholic lives; two met violent deaths. But no instance has yet been publicized of miracles having been performed through their intercession...