Word: churches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist-Episcopal Church. South, Hoover-Democrat, continued his fight with Senator Carter Glass of Virginia. During a speech at Bristol. Va.. he strayed from his main theme. Prohibition, to declare that Negroes employed by Tammany have white stenographers...
Died. Gaetano Cardinal di Lai, 75, after a year and half of illness initiated by pneumonia. He was long a part of the very core of Roman Catholic Church administration and jurisdiction-as secretary of the Consistorial Congregation, as one of the 12 members of the Rota (Church supreme court), as one of the six Cardinal Bishops of the Hierarchy...
Died. Mrs. Rose ("Pinky") Ward Hunt, 77, famed onetime slave; after a brief illness; in Washington, D. C. In 1860 Pastor Henry Ward Beecher bought Pinky for $900. From the pulpit of his Brooklyn church he then sold her to freedom. As Pastor Beecher intended, the sale impressed northerners...
...Reverend Russell Henry Stafford, U.D., minister of the Old South Church, Boston, will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel at 8.45 o'clock this morning...
...Reverend Russell Henry Stafford, D.D., minister of the Old South Church, Boston, will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel at 8.45 o'clock this morning...