Word: diocesans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bishop Freeman. The Right Reverand James Edward Freeman, bishop of Washington, oversees these diocesan works. He is a great strapping man, and a good liver. Men like him. They write him letters after he speaks his resonant lyricism over the radio. They give him money when he asks for it. The Washington Cathedral project has taken renewed vigor since his Episcopal resumption in 1923. Before that he was, for two years, rector of Epiphany Church in Washington; before that, for 11 years, rector of St. Marks Church in Minneapolis. While he was in Minneapolis he was elected Bishop Coadjutor...
Consuelo Vanderbilt, daughter of the late William K. Vanderbilt and the present Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, is alleged to have appeared before the Catholic Diocesan Court at Southwark, Eng., with her mother last July, and deposed that she was forced by parental duress to consent to marry in 1895 Charles Richard John Spencer-Churchill, Ninth Duke of Marlborough, Baron Spencer, Baron Churchill, Earl of Sunderland, Earl of Marlborough, Marquis of Blandford, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, Prince of Mindelheim in Suabia, Knight of the Garter, descendant of "England's greatest general" John Churchill, First Duke of Marlborough...
...Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. The State Bank has resources of $66,000,000, is well organized, prodigiously profitable, but rather a neighborhood affair as great banks go at present. It hopes that Banker Van Vechten can wrap the purple of prestige about his new colleagues, lead them to diocesan power...
Catholic Financing. Bonds of the $5,000,000 Bavarian diocesan loan were offered the U. S. public last week. These bonds are against the General Union of the Eight Bavarian Dioceses of the Roman Catholic Church. Net proceeds of the sale will be loaned as needed to the Bavarian dioceses against first mortgages on Church property or against approved collateral of equal value. This financing is considered an innovation in Catholic Church affairs...
...Thomas F. Gailor, Bishop of Tennessee, one of the best known ecclesiastics in the U. S. Neither of these men is likely to be elected to the new joint-office; the first, because he is 77 years old; the second, because he desires to return to his diocesan duties and literary pursuits. Dozens of candidates have been suggested-bishops such as Matthews of New Jersey, Brent of Western New York, Reese of Ohio, Freeman of Washington...