Word: clergyman
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Women, soldiers, an Indian chief and a clergyman, children, sailors, cowboys, a chemist, a Japanese, a Chinese, an Hawaiian-all these lay in a 5-mi. firing line at Camp Perry (Ohio) last week. They were shooting, for the most part in rain and mud, in the 58th annual National Rifle & Pistol Matches. The three-week Camp Perry shoot is the biggest in the world, dwarfing England's Bisley. This year 3,000 competitors broke all previous Camp Perry records in attendance...
...problem which will occupy the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church which meets in Denver this week is a proposed canon which would permit divorced persons to be married a second time by an Episcopal clergyman, a concession allowed at present only to the innocent party in a divorce for adultery (TIME, May 4). One astute, conservative Episcopal leader who will not be present to discuss this canon is Bishop William Thomas Manning of New York. He was resting under doctor's orders last week at Mt. Desert, seaside resort in Maine. He had not yet declared himself...
...across an interesting paragraph in the "Miscellany" column. It dealt with a small child addressing a plea for money on a letter, to God, City of Detroit. Obviously this letter was opened-but what I would like to know is, Who opened it? A very presumptuous person, if a clergyman. But as a matter of curiosity, would you please clear this...
...father, a Greek clergyman-orator; his mother, Georgina Mandic, a Serbian inventress of household thingamajigs. "Her fingers were still nimble enough to tie three knots in an eyelash" when she was past 60. Dr. Tesla migrated to the U. S. in 1884 to work for Thomas Alva Edison, whom he soon quit. His naturalization papers he keeps in a safety box, his scientific medals and degrees in old trunks and cupboards...
...were fined $11,000 each and sentenced to five years in Atlanta Penitentiary for conspiracy and using the mails to defraud. Worthless was not only $1,250,000 worth of stock in Automotive Royalties Corp. but also that of two previous companies Mr. Parker had formed. Many a mulcted clergyman sadly agreed when Judge Woolsey called him "an enemy to society." Swindler Parker shrugged...