Word: ordain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Patriarchal, 91-year-old retired Bishop William Lawrence of Massachusetts last week helped two of his sons (one of them Bishop William Appleton Lawrence of Western Massachusetts) ordain a third-generation Lawrence to the diaconate.* Thereupon Massachusetts' Lawrences took their place among the dynasties of the Episcopal Church with Virginia's prolific Tucker and Kinsolving families...
...were noticeable around Mutual. MBS, theoretically a non-profit-making organization which lacks any real central executive, and functions in fact as a glorified switchboard (stations pay wire charges themselves), is in position to meet the rigorous new network limitations imposed by FCC. If, as the decrees in effect ordain, all stations are made mutual, and any station may buy any station's programs, MBS will be on a par with the other chains...
Meanwhile the waiting desk in the White House piled up. Soon the President must, however reluctantly, toughen up Government defense relations with labor. He must recommend greatly increased taxes. He must ordain, for the first time, the first U. S. sacrifices. He must decide how far to go in feeding Europe's noncombatants. He must fit unemployment and agricultural relief plans into the defense program...
...where the theory of evolution was first expounded from a U. S. pulpit, the first Woman's Rights Convention met in 1848, and interfaith services were pioneered. Last week the First Unitarian Congregation set what it believed was another precedent: it invited two rabbis to help ordain Member James Ziglar Hanner to the Unitarian ministry, closed the ordination service with the medieval Hebrew hymn Yigdal, sung in English...