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...Virginia politics, he is credited with electing his friend Harry Byrd to the governorship. He has been president of American Newspaper Publishers Association and member of its NRA code committee, president of Community Chests & Councils, Inc., rector of University of Virginia's Board of Visitors. An active churchman, a fluent and witty public speaker, a leader in every benevolent project, he has been voted Richmond's most useful citizen...
...left the rostrum. What meant so much to Dr. Joseph Henry Beale, professor at Harvard Law School, was whether his Church should delete "Protestant" from its name. A famed authority on Taxation, Public Utilities, Municipal Corporations and, above all, Conflicts in Law, Dr. Beale is also a devout high churchman who for years has been a Cambridge lay Deputy to General Convention. Last week he sat on a commission the majority of which believed it "inexpedient" to change the Church's name. To do so, the majority felt, would alienate Protestants in and out of the Church, create unnecessary...
...Atlantic City last week, 10,000 people gathered in vast Convention Hall for a mission rally. Dr. Lewis B. Franklin, treasurer of the Church's National Council, was about to announce results of a ''Thank Offering" collected among the women when suddenly a plain churchman whom few recognized leaped up, strode to a microphone before the high altar. As Presiding Bishop James De Wolf Perry looked on with amazement from his throne, Rev. Cornelius Polhemus Trowbridge of Salem, Mass, cried: "I am not Franklin, but I am a minister of Christ. I have the permission...
Chief objection to all this was stated by Dr. John R. Crosby in the Churchman. His main point: that unless the Episcopal Church sets up a true archbishopric it erects "a bedizened scarecrow that will be the laughing stock of every church in Christendom." And a true archbishop would wield powers which many a U. S. bishop would be loath to give...
...Independence in a series of "Farmer's Letters," was imprisoned in Connecticut for six weeks in 1775. Chosen bishop by ten Connecticut churchmen, he was consecrated in 1784 in Aberdeen, Scotland because he could not properly take the British oath of allegiance. An able organizer and a strict churchman, he signed himself "Samuel Bp. Connect...