Word: lexington
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kentucky. At a party convention at Lexington, Republicans renominated Senator John Marshall Robsion without opposition...
...Church (Episcopal) of Dayton, Ky., journeyed to Ellicott City, Md. There, by a Catholic priest, he was married to a Catholic girl, blonde Catherine Rogers. Quickly, back in Kentucky, rumor began to spread that Rector Velasco had broken a promise. His ecclesiastical brethren in the diocese of Lexington, Ky., had known of his courtship. Therefore, before his ordination, he had been asked by a committee of the diocese to pledge that in the event of his marrying a Catholic, he would resign his orders. Greatly exercised by Rector Velasco's deed was Right Rev. Henry Pryor Almon Abbott, Canadian...
Holding, despite the court findings, that Rector Velasco had broken his "plighted and written pledge," that it would be impossible for a bishop to recognize such a man in his diocese, Bishop Abbott last week went to a meeting in Christ Church Cathedral, Lexington; characterized the sentence of a reprimand as "absurd." Then he astounded his colleagues by resigning his Bishopric. Afterwards he donned knickers and an eyeshade, sought the quiet golf links. Said he: "So far as I am concerned, the Roman Catholic issue made no difference. . . . It was merely a question of the honor and integrity...
This plan calls for a reduction to a minimum of the cultivation of decorative plants such as horticultural forms and hybrids, double roses, fancy tulips, and other artificial varieties. This entire phase of horticultural endeavor is, however, being taken up by the newly formed Lexington Botanic Garden which is being supported by the Garden clubs and interested persons...
Professor S. F. Hamblin, former director of the Harvard Botanic Garden is director of this new garden in Lexington. Since he and the members of the garden clubs were instrumental in organizing many of the horticultural collections at the Harvard Botanic Garden, it has been thought wise to transfer to the Lexington garden those collections which will no longer be appropriately grown at the Harvard Garden. Any plants which have been given to Harvard with a special proviso attached will be transferred with the same understanding...