Word: electable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sacraments, baptism and communion, finding "not a shred of evidence" for the high-roaders' belief that Christ is to be reached through five more sacraments-confession and absolution of sins, confirmation, extreme unction, holy orders, matrimony. Neither group acknowledges the ghostly authority of any earthly pope; together they elect a bishop to preside over one and all, and formally their Church is one church, militant...
...case of Lewis Latham Clarke, president of the American Exchange-Pacific National and executive committee chairman of the new Irving Trust combine. His ancestors were governors of Rhode Island, including that colony's founder Roger Williams. The ancestors of Harry E. Ward, President-Elect of the combine, reached Massachusetts...
...Hanover National for 13 years before joining the N. Y. National Exchange (later the Irving Trust) as a clerk. Mr. Clarke was 12 years (1889-1901) in becoming assistant cashier of the American Exchange National though he was to succeed his father, Dumont Clarke, as president in 1910. President-elect Ward went straight from Yale to a bottom-level job with the Irving Trust, his rise to the presidency in 18 years (1901-19) being accounted exceptionally rapid...
...Green will start its strongest team against Harvard. The injury to Horton, veteran fullback, deprives Dartmouth of its captain, but Black, the sophomore back who will start, is rated as the best ball carrier the visitors have. The appointment of MacPhail as acting captain instead of the ex-captain-elect, Dooley, causes much speculation. As Black is Dartmouth's other punter it is thought that his substitution and McPhail's appointment may mean that Dooley, star kicker and passer, will be relegated to the sidelines. In this eventuality either Harris or MacPhail will call the signals, with McAvoy, rated...
...Stephenson says he spent $120,000 to elect Governor Jackson, and later commanded him to appoint Senator Robinson, Republican, as the successor of the late Senator Samuel M. Ralston, Democrat...