Word: joaquin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Recalled: the prediction of one-eyed Mexican General Joaquin Amaro that "the time will come when Latin America will have to furnish 10,000,000 troops to the Allies...
...Coast), the Episcopalian U.S. is mostly a missionary area. Episcopalians, who may know these facts but are not altogether aware of them, had their ears seized and shouted in this week, when the Rev. J. Lindsay Patton of Berkeley, Calif, not only declined his election as Bishop of San Joaquin but said the bishopric ought to be abolished...
...Before this district raises funds for the support of an episcopal establishment," he said, "it should pay a living wage to the clergy already giving their lives to its service." Rector Patton thought that the best thing to do was to absorb San Joaquin once more into the other Episcopal dioceses in California...
...Joaquin see embraces almost a third of the enormous State of California, has a population of 770,344. But it has only 2,836 Episcopal communicants, and its eleven vicars average only $28.50 (top: $33.65) a week-"when they can get it." There is small chance of their ever getting better parishes, because no better parishes are there...
Thanks to the slump in Episcopal mission-giving, San Joaquin's aid from the national church has dwindled in the last decade to an amount that merely pays the bishop's stipend ($4,050 with a house and travel allowance) and part of the salaries of eight or ten clergymen...