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...Jackson Kemper (1789-1870) son of a customs receiver for New York City. He lived in Philadelphia with his first wife, and in Norwalk, Conn, with his second, but he loved the Western frontier. He became the first missionary bishop of the Episcopal Church, with jurisdiction over Missouri and Indiana. For 25 years Bishop Kemper, with his Greek New Testament, was a familiar figure preaching in Wabash River barrooms and swapping anecdotes with trappers along the Missouri. By the time he died, he had established seven dioceses, founded Kemper College, Nashotah House, Racine College, ¶ Daniel Sylvester Tuttle...
Whether or not Bishops Kemper and Tuttle are worthy of sainthood, many a conscientious Episcopalian doubts the practicality of Bishop Welles's suggestion. Since the Reformation, the Anglican Communion has largely contented itself with the ancient saints of the church calendar. The most famous exception was King Charles I, charged with treason and beheaded by a provisional government under Cromwell in 1649. After the Resto ration the Church of England acclaimed him as a martyr for his unwillingness to renounce the Anglican faith, officially put his feast into the calendar of saints.-Nearest thing to a U.S. Episcopal saint...
...George A. Smathers, a counselor for the U.S. delegation, added to the consternation by declaring himself in "full accord" with Fulton. Henry Holland, State Department chief for Latin American Affairs, growled that "under our system [Fulton] has a right to say anything he wants." Peppery U.S. Ambassador James Scott Kemper poured oil on the fire by canceling the Congressman's invitation to a Rio embassy reception just as Fulton finished dressing for the party...
...five years, and if his country has to set aside $14 million monthly to repay the loan, there will be even less left to spend for U.S. exports. While Souza Dantas journeyed on to Manhattan to discuss the same problem with U.S. bankers and exporters, U.S. Ambassador James Kemper telephoned Washington from his post in Rio. Asked whether he talked to President Eisenhower, he said: "No, but don't ask me the next question." Reporters guessed he had put in a word for the Brazilians with his good friend Secretary of the Treasury-George Humphrey, who was mainly responsible...
...Kemper's call was as effective as Souza Dantas' timely report on U.S. export prospects in Brazil. At week's end the Export-Import Bank announced that to "serve the mutual interests of trade and of the economies of the two countries," terms of the credit would be relaxed to permit Brazil to pay its debt over 7½ years. For his part, Souza Dantas said that half of Brazil's dollar earnings in excess of $1 billion (last year's total earnings: $765 million) would also be applied to reducing the debt...