Word: churches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: In your issue of Nov. 31, on p. 30, you refer to and quote from an editorial in the Living Church, referring to the operations of a gentleman [Chevalier Giacinto Leccisi] calling himself a papal chamberlain...
...sending you a copy of a letter sent by the Rev. John J. Burke [General Secretary of the National Catholic Welfare Conference] to the Living Church, and published in the issue...
...said he, "have force, personality, leadership. With others it's just the opposite. Mr. Black is a kindly, gentle, fine individual, but as a leader, an up-to-date fellow, a go-getter-why he just doesn't know the first thing about it. At best, the church is standing still. In a growing community like Douglaston we need a live wire. We tried to play ball on this proposition. We offered to take care of him for 18 months. But he became stubborn, showing his inability to realize what is best for the church." The pastor then...
...flight between his thumb & forefinger. The day of his death, like most of the days of his life, found Griffo without a dime. Money was minted to his memory. In an imposing white metal casket, gift of Tex Rickard, Griffo was buried from the consequential Madison Avenue Baptist Church. The funeral throng was mixed from the brave days of old; tottering gray figures forgotten by the sport world, women who remembered, fighters he had knocked senseless. A newspaperman reported James J. Corbett, onetime heavyweight champion of the world, as having said, kneeling beside the casket: "The zephyr of all ring...
Substantiating this boast were able, painstaking, scientific sketches of fish, by Staff-Artist-of-the-Expedition Mrs. Helen Damrosch Tee-Van, niece of onetime Manhattan Symphony Conductor Walter Damrosch. Then there were land and seascapes by Frederick Church, likewise socially and artistically prominent. Also there were those faces...