Word: dodd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Patrons and patronesses attending the dance include: Professor and Mrs. R. J. Baker, Professor and Mrs. E. M. Dodd, Professor and Mrs. Sheldon Glueck, Professor and Mrs. Livingston Hall, Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Holiday, Professor and Mrs. M. O. Hudson, Professor and Mrs. J. M. Landis, Professor and Mrs. W. N. Leach, Professor and Mrs. Calvert Magruder, Professor and Mrs. W. A. Seavey, Professor and Mrs. S. P. Simpson, Professor and Mrs. J. B. Thayer, Professor and Mrs. E. S. Thurston, Professor and Mrs. S. B. Warner, and Professor Samuel Williston...
Apocryphal. Mother Cleveland died three years before her son was first inaugurated in 1885.-ED. Allan Nevins in his Grover Cleveland: A Study in Courage (Dodd, Mead, 1932) quotes Cleveland as saying, after the inauguration of McKinley, "I envy him today only one thing, and that was the presence of his own mother at his inauguration. I would have given anything in the world if my mother could have been at my inauguration...
...white. The southward spread of Harlem has turned it Negro by 300 souls to 50. Much vexed were a group of white vestrymen, led by one Manuel Jesus Roure, who blamed it all upon the rector, a lank, thin-lipped onetime curate of Trinity Church named Rev. Rollin Dodd. The vestry ordered Rector Dodd to cease encouraging the Negroes. When he refused the vestry asked him to resign, stopped his salary. When this failed they had the church closed, "for repairs,'' and the locks changed. Declaring the ceiling might fall any moment, they had scaffolding...
...York's Bishop insists upon seemliness and order in his diocese. Too, he displayed pride last fortnight in the fact that New York has more Negro Episcopalians than any other diocese North or South. Last week he jumped to Rector Dodd's defense, announced he would preach in All Souls'. When Manuel Jesus Roure threatened to keep him out by "legal means," Bishop Manning said, ''I shall be there...
Sunday morning Bishop Manning put on his biretta, Episcopal vestments, academic hood. When he arrived at All Souls', he found the rector, the superintendent, twelve policemen and a large crowd waiting. Bishop Manning demanded the keys. The superintendent had none. "Shall we break in?" asked Rector Dodd. "Yes!" said the Bishop loudly and firmly, adding that church law and civil law sanctioned him. Rector Dodd had with him a lock smith. While Bishop Manning waited, they went through the basement, sanctuary and nave, removing hinges, picking locks, at last smashing the padlock on the front gates of the church...