Word: episcopalian
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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...
...invocation of the saints (which he advocates). But he found no binding pronouncements by Episcopal Church authority either in favor of these practices or against them. He felt himself equally helpless even to enforce some of the explicit rules of the church, e.g., the "bounden duty" of every Episcopalian to attend services on Sunday. Says Kernan: "The laity may do almost anything they want . . . If you tell them that something's their bounden duty, they're liable to get sore...
...pressure of his doubts grew heavy, Episcopalian Kernan began looking outside his own communion, decided that he belonged in the Church of Rome. Last week, though he has no definite plans for supporting his wife and six children, he told his friends he felt like...