Word: churched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three other Illinois bishops chanted prayers, asked absolution for the Cardinal's soul. His body was laid to rest in the great seminary he had built, St. Mary's of the Lake, in the handsome Colonial chapel which he had copied from a Congregational church in Old Lyme, Conn...
...since the war began was the wedding of Winston Churchill's big blond son Randolph, 28, to the Hon. Pamela Digby, 19, eldest daughter of horsy Edward Kenelm Digby, Baron Digby. During the service Winston wept, but as he left the Queen Anne style St. John's church in Smith Square he beamed with Alfred Duff Cooper as the crowds, still exuberant over the debate on Lloyd George's speech the day before (see p. 36), howled "Good old Duff! Good old Churchill!" Press photographers had a field day as Randolph, ex-Hearst newspaperman, now a subaltern...
When it met in Atlantic City, N. J. last fortnight, the Eastern Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church had only one big item on its agenda: to declare itself legally dead. The M. P. Church, split off from ordinary Methodism for 111 years because of doctrinal disputes and a rooted antipathy to bishops, had rejoined it last spring, thus helped to form the nation's biggest Protestant sect, the new Methodist Church (TIME, May 8). For 16 M. P. churchmen from southern New Jersey, this merger was newfangled and nefarious. For the record, one of them asked the conference...
...dissenters forthwith rumped themselves, declared the rump a "reorganization" of the conference they had bolted. Without mentioning bishops, they issued a statement accusing Methodist Church leaders of denying the Virgin Birth and inspiration of the Scriptures, of espousing "modernism, radicalism and communism." The ranks of the dissident M. P.s shortly swelled to 37 ministers and congregations. And they had the small but strengthening assurance that M. P.s elsewhere had done what they were doing: in Mississippi, 47 ministers bolted the Methodist Church; in Michigan, 18; in Georgia and South Carolina, a handful...
...year Keller graduated (1901) Walter Chrysler lost his tuba, and the month Keller left the Mount Joy High School Chrysler married sweet-faced Della Forker in the Methodist church at their home town, Ellis, Kans. From then on, life was all business for Walter Chrysler. He left the railroad business as a shop foreman for Chicago Great Western, became works manager for American Locomotive Co., got his first job in the automobile business in 1911 (age 36) as works manager for Buick...