Word: episcopalian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Good Shepherd. In Houston, campaigning for traffic safety, Episcopal Bishop Clinton S. Quin passed out cards urging local drivers to be more careful at the wheel because "You may hit an Episcopalian...
...religion he is a devout Episcopalian. In political philosophy he is a New Dealer with a pressing desire for public service and a sense of noblesse oblige. From his days in short pants he has been outstanding for two clear qualities: natural leadership and dogged ambition. In proper balance these qualities should lead to greatness. Yet in practical politics Soapy Williams has somehow not been great There are, in his record, strong indications that he has pawned the quality of leadership to feed ambition...
Cashmore, a Brooklyn-born Episcopalian, peddled newspapers as a boy to stretch the finances of his widowed mother, later studied law at night, and got into politics by running for the state assembly. ("You keep thinking you've met him before," said one reporter, "and you have-in every political machine in the U.S., and every hour on the hour in Washington.") He graduated to alderman, then borough president, has never been beaten in 17 elections-all confined to Brooklyn...
Fine is a regular churchgoer (Episcopalian), vice president of the Pennsylvania Council of Churches and a senior warden at his own parish, St. George's, Nanticoke. He says with true Pennsylvania candor: "As a boy, I never missed an opportunity to cut church. But when I became a judge, I felt that a judge should set a good example in his county...
...Eisenhower is an Episcopalian...