Word: marylander
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Synod House adjoining the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Manhattan, went last week some three score of the 138 Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church. They were called there by Presiding Bishop John Gardner Murray (Maryland) to elect two peers. Vacancies had occurred upon the resignations of Bishop William Lawrence of Massachusetts and Missionary Bishop Theodore P. Thurston of the District of Oklahoma. Before the House of Bishops convened, a third resignation unexpectedly arrived, from Missionary Bishop Nathaniel Seymour Thomas of the District of Wyoming, who said he wanted to "articulate the theological equipment of the students with modern...
...less than the Republicans) with Alfred Emanuel Smith comfortably leading with 53,751. Senator James A. Reed, eloquent Missourian, ran second with 41,185. William Gibbs McAdoo, declared politically dead by Smith followers, stirred in his grave and captured 37,245 ballots. Governor Albert Cabell Ritchie of Maryland, Wet champion of states' rights, totaled 26,113 and Governor Alvin Victor Donahey of Ohio, very dark horse, polled...
Last week in Chicago, in Kansas City, Mo., and in Omaha another Southerner once more raised the state rights banner, with Prohibition as the subject of his story. Touring the West in an unofficial but unmistakable preConvention campaign, Governor Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland warned his audiences against overcentralization of power. "This centralization of government into remote hands," said he, "chills the free play of the free impulses of a free people...
...Ritchie made an excellent personal impression upon both Generals and Privates of the Western Democratic army. They pointed out that Governor Ritchie's wetness is known but that Governor Smith's is notorious; that Governor Ritchie's nomination would raise no "Romanist" bugaboo; that though the Maryland Governor might bring to the Democratic convention only the Maryland delegation, he would none the less be in an excellent strategic position should a deadlock develop over Governor Smith's candidacy...
...Certain Southerners began a boomlet for Senator J. Thomas Heflin of Alabama. Mr. Heflin is the Senator who during the last session of Congress remarked : "A Catholic bullet brought Roosevelt down. . . . If I am murdered many Catholic priests will pay the penalty. . . ." Of him Senator William Cabell Bruce of Maryland said: "I am afraid he will never be still till he has worn his tongue down to his tonsils." Though Senator Heflin was reported to be "in a receptive mood" the movement was considered anti-Smith rather than pro-Heflin...