Word: layman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ambassador to Spain, Armour will replace a diplomat of a different type. A Columbia University history scholar, known to U.S. college students for his four-volume History of Modern Europe, Carlton Hayes had no diplomatic experience until he went to Spain in 1942. A front-rank Catholic layman who got on well with Dictator Franco, he was often criticized, mostly by the left-wing press, as an "appeaser." To avoid embarrassing President Roosevelt in an election year, he offered his resignation. Refused then, it is sure to be accepted...
...layman's language, this is roughly how the emiriton works...
...People Remembered. During the afternoon and night before his funeral his body lay in state at St. Patrick's Cathedral -the first time since the death of Ignace Paderewski in 1941 that a layman had been accorded this honor. The people of New York had not forgotten him. From mid-afternoon until 2 a.m. the four blocks of sidewalk around the cathedral were jammed with a solid mass of people, waiting to enter. A drizzling rain fell toward evening, gleaming wetly on hundreds of umbrellas, but the patient, silent crowds shuffled on-soldiers, old women, Negroes, bobby-sox girls...
...movement has grown slowly. Thus far, only about 20 bishops, mostly in the East, have approved its street-corner evangelism. Most Eastern speakers are laymen; in the West they are mostly priests. The pioneer layman is Boston's David Goldstein, a convert from Judaism. Licensed by the late Cardinal O'Connell, he spoke for the first time on Boston Common in 1917. Since then Goldstein, who calls himself "a convert from Marx to Christ," has gone up & down the land expounding his new faith...
...sure that some of the men who participated, especially those who are no longer with us, and will never be able to take the sacrament again, will forgive me." Commented Rector Jones: "Fully admitting the irregularity, which to many will seem a weak word, of a layman's celebrating the Holy Communion, and other elements in the service almost as startling, I can but believe that the sacrament was as valid in the sight of God as it would have been if regularly held in one of our largest cathedrals...