Word: churches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...explicit cabled despatch was the source of TIME'S footnote to a story of how the Revised Prayer Book of the Church of England was debated in the House of Commons. TIME'S footnote said: "An astounding and unprecedented affront to the Holy Trinity was the laying of very heavy bets at leading London clubs during the two days of prayer and debate. Odds of 7 to 4 favoring the Prayer Book narrowed rapidly to even money, and finally reached 5 to 4 against. "Since nearly all members of the exclusive clubs where such betting took place...
...cordon of police and several plain-clothes men escorted John Coolidge through Chicago, Brule-bound. He reached his family in time to go with them to blind John Taylor's tiny Congregational Church. Just before his sermon Mr. Taylor said: "I take this opportunity of wishing President Coolidge a very happy birthday and many, many happy returns." As everyone knew, Calvin Coolidge would be 56 on the Fourth of July...
Came a curious revelation. Some one looked up the baptismal record of Charles Curtis. It was at the Immaculate Conception (Roman Catholic) Church in St. Mary's, Kan. Dated April 15, 1860, it was signed by L. Dumortier, Jesuit priest, missionary to the Potawatomies. In St. Mary's it was recalled that Ellen Pappan Curtis, the nominee's mother, attended St. Mary's Convent. Interviewed about the discovery, Nominee Curtis said: "I learned for the first time only a few years ago that I had been baptized a Roman Catholic. . . . My mother died, you know, when I was very young...
...sharp fight, too. Dan Moody, young Governor of Texas, sat with Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Beside them were two Wilson Cabinet men, Josephus Daniels and Carter Glass. Opposing, sat truculent young Senator Tydings of Maryland, arch Senator Edwards of New Jersey, solid Senator Wagner of New York and other Wets. Hovering near were Anti-Saloon Leaguers; Captain William H. Stayton of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment; many a busybody, many a crank. Sebastian Spering Kresge, 5-and-10-cent man, was there, presumably to see that the Anti-Saloon League was mak-ing good...
...Received their chief vicarious thrill of the week when David Lloyd George delivered before the Welsh Church Union in London a fiery and thoroughgoing reprimand to Christians...