Word: marylander
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only a new man but also a new office was silhouetted upon the consciousness of the U. S. public last week. The House of Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church elected the Rt. Rev. John Gardner Murray, seventh Bishop of Maryland, to be the first elected Presiding Bishop of the Church. His election was approved by the House of Clerical and, Lay Deputies, which together with the House of 132 Bishops, constitutes the Church's Government, in session for the past fortnight at New Orleans (TIME...
Bishop Murray, now eligible to the courtesy title of "Most Reverend," was born into a Methodist family of Maryland 68 years ago, and early developed a penchant for the Christian ministry. But before his education had been completed, circumstances threw him into money-making and set him down on a bookkeeper's stool in the Osage Coal and Mining Co., Selma, Ala. He rose, prospered. In 1892 he was a banker, a broker, a potential payer of income surtaxes. Having compounded with the market place, he was two years later ordained priest of the Episcopal Church and sent as missionary...
...Washington Memorial, austere bayonet of white Maryland marble, which took 36 sporadic years to build (1848-1884); the site for which was chosen by Washington himself; which cost $1,300,000; which was designed by Robert Mills, and whose stones, given by separate states, bear each its privy inscription ("All that live must...
...physician to every 2,225. North Dakota does poorly, has one to every 1,386; South Carolina one to 1,325: on the other hand, California does well has one to every 455; the District of Columbia one to every 242 Colorado one to 539. New York, Vermont, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, have one to from 600 to 700 people...
When the case came up for trial, the Senator had gone on his journey with the Senate Committee (vide supra). The only charge lodged was resisting an officer. In absence, his bail was forfeit, and the case closed. In Maryland, his home state, Senator Weller was arrested, for failing to have Maryland license plates on his automobile. Instead he had District of Columbia plates. The District fee is $1; the Maryland...