Word: chaplains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case of General Kurt von Schleicher, onetime Chancellor and Defense Minister, Military Chaplain Schleigel announced: "I will officiate at the funeral whether it is forbidden or not!" Elderly retired brother officers of General von Schleicher mustered up courage to send telegrams indicating disbelief in the Government's charge that their comrade and his wife had been "shot resisting arrest." Some of these telegrams, bold but not too bold, used a word combination possible only in German, expressing sorrow at the "comradeassassination...
...funeral chapel at Lankwitz's Park Cemetery in Berlin went in full uniform with all his medals General Baron Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord. who was the Reichswehr's brilliant commander under Chancellor von Schleicher. Floral tributes rolled up by the truckload and Military Chaplain Schleigel was striding resolutely up to begin the service when he was nabbed by Secret Police...
...have orders from above!" they barked. Pushing aside the Chaplain and General von Hammerstein, they seized the coffins of General and Frau von Schleicher and carted them off. Other Secret Police chased mourners away from the empty graves. For 48 hours the von Schleicher family knew not what had become of their dead. Then more Secret Police arrived...
...keep alive the ideas born of that inquiry 100-odd laymen and ministers are currently laboring under the name of the "Modern Missions Movement." Most active worker is Dr. Orville Anderson Petty, 60, Congregationalist minister, one-time president of Arnold College in New Haven, onetime Army chaplain (with citations and decorations), onetime president of the New Haven Council of Churches. Dr. Petty did spadework for the Laymen's Inquiry as a "FactFinder" in India. Says he: "An increasing number of world-minded Christians desire to support work abroad on the basis of merit and promise, regardless of religious affiliations...
...trains. Because of her husband's interest in Trollope her kennel name is Barchester. At 3 a. m. police rolled up to the door and routed her out of bed. Mrs. Sadlier is a sportswoman born; her father, Canon Albert Darell Tupper-Carey, has the sporting post of Chaplain at Monte Carlo. Shaking the sleep from her eyes she called...