Word: court
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Norman W. Shepard, athletic director and basketball coach at Davidson College since 1936, will succeed Bill Barclay as Harvard court mentor, the H.A.A. announced last night...
Until last year, Puerto Rico's Governors were appointed by the U.S. President, subject to Senate confirmation. Judges of the island's Supreme Court are still presidential appointees, but Puerto Ricans feel that they took a long step ahead in the democratic process when a new U.S. law allowed them to elect their own governor...
...York court last week officially upheld the right of an Episcopal bishop to fire a minister under his jurisdiction. As he listened to his friend, Justice Meier Steinbrink, deliver the long decision upholding the provisions of Episcopal canon law, old Rector John Howard Melish, 74, slumped forward in his seat and rested his forehead on his cane...
...Church of the Holy Trinity. Young Melish's busy left-wing activities (e.g., he was chairman of the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship) had finally led Holy Trinity's vestrymen to appeal to the Bishop of Long Island for the ouster of their rector. After the court ruled, many a Holy Trinity parishioner hoped that son William would at last resign so that the bishop could reverse his decision on the well-loved father...
...this week, embattled Rector Melish announced that he would see it through with his son to the bitter end by appealing to the appellate court. Meanwhile, he and young Melish would take no part in the services at the church which he has headed for 45 years. "My family and I," he announced, "will attend . . . as members of the parish...