Word: gormanic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Barrie Jr. '32, Newell Bent '33, L. M. Channing '32, W. A. Chapman '34, J. C. Coleman '34, C. B. Currier '32, J. M. Estabrook '34, B. E. Estes Jr. '32, Jarvis Farley '32, J. M. Fox '32, Arthur Foote '33, Peter Geuran '32, P. E. Gorman '32, S. N. Greenberg '32, J. S. Hayes '34, A. B. Hallowell '34, N. P. Hallowell Jr. '32, W. Van A. Hansen '34, L. W. McGuire Jr. '34, Daniel Melcher '34, Edward Milton '33, J. M. Morse '33, F. D. Murphy '33, E. S. Newbury Jr. '32, James Parton '34, J. H. Pearson...
...welcoming all comers: moody socialites, glittering cinemactresses, minor celebrities who will bring front-page space as did Cartoonist Peter Arno and Author Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. when they quarreled boyishly (TIME, June 29). Loving to be unique, Reno was pleased last week when there arrived in town Dr. Thomas Kiley Gorman, 38, first Roman Catholic Bishop of the new diocese of Reno, Nevada (TIME, Aug. 3). For Bishop Gorman is no run-of-the-mill prelate such as another State might get: he is a golfer, joke-teller, smoker of big black cigars, and the youngest Catholic Bishop...
Consecrated five weeks ago in Los Angeles, Bishop Gorman arrived last week in Reno bringing with him his own publicity man, Fred V. Williams. Day after his arrival he was formally installed in old brick St. Thomas Aquinas Church, which is now elevated to the rank of Cathedral (congregation: 1,100 families). From its porch he could look across the street to El Cortez Hotel, where lives many a divorce-seeker. Five blocks away is "Gamblers' Row"-Douglas Alley and Center St. Eight blocks away is the Reno Court House, where Monday "wash-days" are held...
After his installation Bishop Gorman banqueted with priests and assisting bishops. (In his diocese of some 10,000 souls are 33 churches, 14 priests, one parochial school, one Catholic hospital.) At the State Building next evening he was given a public banquet. Said he: "It is already becoming embarrassing to be pointed out ' as Reno's 'boy bishop,' Parents have always warned their children that they should be seen but not heard." He busied himself meeting and talking with his welcomers. Among them were Nevada's Governor Fredrick Bennett Balzar, California's Governor James...
Less reluctant to discuss moral questions in his new home than he had been in California, Bishop Gorman commented, after a tour of the town: "Before we can save the world, we must save ourselves. No crusades are intended...