Word: chaplains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House Chaplain sonorously wound up his opening prayer one forenoon last week, a small frown knit the bushy brows of Speaker Joseph Wellington Byrns. The House was being criticized for its slow legislative pace-and somehow he was being held responsible (TIME, April 22). He realized that a crisis was at hand, for two spiced goblets threatened his legislative program: 1) the baseball season was scheduled to open that afternoon in Washington, and 2) members were agitating for a three-day recess over Good Friday...
...Washington, D. C.'s Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church, Rev. James Shera Montgomery, Chaplain of the House of Representatives, told a full Easter congregation: "I know some of you won't be back until next Easter, so let me wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year...
...befits a German Emperor, which he is in all but name, Realmleader Hitler sat alone ahead of the congregation. Realmbishop Ludwig Muller pronounced the words of holy matrimony, almost the only thing he has done without public dispute since Catholic Hitler raised him from the rank of army chaplain to be the most unpopular head of Protestantism Germany has ever had. To Muller's question "Do you take this woman. . . ?" Göring replied "JA!" with the bellow of a drill sergeant. The State Actress answered "ja" so softly she could scarcely be heard...
...Frick announced at Nurnberg to 75,000 assembled Nazis that the Realm-government is about ready to smash opposition in the German Protestant Church to Adolf Hitler's hand-picked Realm-bishop Ludwig Müller, promoted at a single bound from the rank of a common Army chaplain (TIME, July 10, 1933). "This is my last warning to Protestant Opposition pastors!" cried Dr. Frick, and closed with a eulogy of No. 1 Brownshirt Jewbaiter Julius Streicher (see below): "Our two glorious years of intensive anti-Jewish policy would have been impossible without Streicher...
...Thomas) Lawrason Riggs, broad-faced chaplain of Yale's Catholic Club and Associate Fellow of Yale's Calhoun College. Born 46 years ago into an old Maryland family, Father Riggs taught English at Yale and Harvard, served during the War in the Intelligence Corps, did not become a priest until...