Word: churches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then came two famed southerners, Principal Robert Russa Moton of Tuskegee Institute (Negroes) and Bishop James Cannon Jr., of the Methodist-Episcopal Church South. Bishop Cannon was asked to stay for a meal, discuss prohibition...
...Washington, hopeful of Rusher Heffelfinger's success at the polls, were his great and good Yale friends, Secretary of State Stimson (1888) and Republican House Leader Tilson (1891), who fondly recall that their college was founded for service "to Church and State...
Five centuries ago, when Church was State and monkhood was in flower, Joan of Arc with shaven head prayed on a pile of faggots in Rouen, while Warwick's English soldiers set the pyre alight, and the crafty-eyed Bishop of Beauvais, "Unjust Judge Cauchon," twisted the amethyst ring on his finger and watched...
...village of Farnham, Surrey, English monks, members of the orders before which Joan was tried, laid the cornerstone of a church to St. Joan of Arc. Present was Mgr. Eugéne Stanislas Le Senne, today's Bishop of Beauvais...
...Social Hygiene Association, presided. Dr. Robert Latou Dickinson of the New York Academy of Medicine, energetic in maternal health work, resolved that some permanent agency be formed to study and act on sex education, sex literature. The mass meeting approved unanimously, except for Canon William Sheafe Chase of Christ Church, Brooklyn. He, who had abetted the conviction of Mrs. Dennett, sat in the gallery silent, watchful, preparing to continue his denunciation in debate and lecture...