Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...These Carnal Things." Bishop Manning's letter, printed in Manhattan newspapers, elicited a reply from Dr. Coffin, who declared: "The ministry of the church in which I serve has as unbroken a tradition, reaching back to the earliest age, as any ministry in Christendom-if one cares to boast of these carnal things.† I would not willingly expose this ministry to such disparagement as appears to be put upon it by Bishop Manning...
...Reiland, "greatly disappointed," did not despair. For he too had legal counsel: Lawyers Robert Fulton Cutting, civic-minded Manhattan millionaire (TIME, Feb. 14, 1927) and George Woodward Wickersham, onetime (1909-13) U. S. Attorney-General, now chairman of President Hoover's law-enforcement commission. They had assured him that the prayer book's prohibition refers to "church" in the sense of "congregation" and would not apply to the loan of a building. Though he tactfully yielded to the bishop's "official admonition," Dr. Reiland felt his legal position was as good as his bishop...
Harmony at Harvard. While the brethren in Manhattan were quarreling over legalities, some 400 Jews, Roman Catholics and Protestants met in Harvard University's Fogg Art Museum to discuss their differences. The seminar was held under the auspices of the Calvert Round Table, an organization founded "to remove religious prejudice, and to foster among all our people respect for each other's sincere convictions, mutual confidence and good will." Speakers were President Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard University, Rabbi Harry Levi of Boston's Temple Israel, Rev. Father Michael J. Ahern, S. J., of Weston College. Among...
...Four years ago Bishop Manning engaged the Manhattan firm of Tamblyn & Brown, money raisers extraordinary, to collect a $15,000,000 fund for the completion of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. A campaign slogan, "A house of prayer for all people," helped extract gifts from Jews, Catholics, Protestants alike...
Awarded. To Dr. Florence Rena Sabin, 58 this month, member of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (Manhattan); onetime (1917-25) Johns Hopkins professor, the Pictorial Review's $5,000 prize for "The most distinctive contribution to American life in the fields of Arts, Letters or The Sciences" in 1928. Only woman member of the National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Sabin directs the testing of chemical substances isolated from the tubercule bacillus to discover their separate effects in order to analyze each factor of the disease itself...