Word: episcopalian
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...Harold M. Hays, Episcopalian brother of the Jewish civil libertarian, Arthur Garfield Hays, operates two private hospitals in Manhattan. He also is an otolaryngologist of note and gets many cases referred to him from other physicians. "It is possible that as many as 60% to 70% of the 14,000 doctors in the metropolitan area are engaged in this pernicious practice of splitting fees. Best evidence we have of this is the vote taken last month by the Kings County Medical Society, when 579 out of 770 doctors voted against establishing a law to stop the practice...
...Bishop Higgins was made Assistant Bishop of the New York and Philadelphia Synod, a confusing title since he will actually run the Synod, assisting no one. Episcopal mainly in that it uses the Prayer Book with "high" elements deleted, the Reformed Church was founded in 1873 by a discontented Episcopalian, Rev. George David Cummins. It invites all comers to Holy Communion, considers its bishops merely "head presbyters," no more potent than other priests. A typical, evangelical Reformed Episcopalian is Bishop Higgins, who acquired a touch of Presbyterianism at Princeton Seminary, whither he went after attending Columbia and the Reformed Episcopal...
...good preacher: "He should get religion like a Methodist; experience it like a Baptist; be sure of it like a Disciple; stick to it like a Lutheran; pay for it like a Presbyterian; conciliate it like a Congregationalist; glorify it like a Jew; be proud of it like an Episcopalian ; practice it like a Christian Scientist; propagate it like a Roman Catholic; work for it like a Salvation Army Lassie; enjoy it like a colored...
...Unaware at that point were the Cooke brothers that they were about to become the greatest bankers in the country, to finance the greatest industrial enterprise in U. S. history up to that time (Northern Pacific), to fail with the greatest crash then on record. A blue-eyed, energetic Episcopalian whose only frivolity was playing his flute, Jay Cooke was born in Sandusky, Ohio in 1821, grew up in a hot Abolitionist country, served his apprenticeship in St. Louis, got into Philadelphia banking at the age of 18. Since his marriage in 1844 was happy, his prudent investments in railroads...
...department of the American University at Cairo for five years before he was called to Dartmouth. While at Cairo he introduced basketball to Egyptian youngsters, wrote the first book of basketball rules in Arabic, started a 16-team Nile Valley League which is flourishing today. Blond, squarejawed, and piously Episcopalian, Dr. Eddy is married, has two boys, two girls, can beat any of them at chess...