Word: patriarchate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Samuel Gompers, patriarch of the American Federation of Labor, has long taken the attitude that the Federation is not in politics. That stand is an ideal for which he has waged and won many bitter battles. His belief is that the Federation may justifiably recommend to its members that they vote for given policies and for given candidates on the basis of their records. He holds equally strongly that the Federation is a labor, not a political, body, that its interests would be more hurt than helped if it became identified with any party?even a Labor Party...
...Presbyterianism in America," the Rev. Dr. J. Gresham Machen, stated supply (preacher) at the First Presbyterian Church, was relieved of his position. It was not announced whether or not Dr. Machen's withdrawal was aftermath of the flurry that occurred when Dr. Henry van Dyke, genial Princeton patriarch, protested against the "bitter, schismatic, unscriptural preaching of the stated supply of the First Presbyterian Church of Princeton," gave up his pew, said: "Until he is done, count me out" (TIME, Jan 14). In connection with the release, however, the session of the First Presbyterian Church published a tribute...
...English are no angels, of course," said he, "but their Palestinian motives are in the main idealistic." He is on the most friendly terms with High Commissioner Sir Herbert Samuel. Sir Herbert, says he, has brought about close coöperation between him, the Roman Catholic Bishop, the Greek Orthodox Patriarch, and the Mufti* of the Moslems...
...Tikhon, unfrocked Patriarch of Russia, fainted in the Donskoy Monastery. Suffering from arteriosclerosis...
...Venice, the Vice Postulator of Beatification appeared before the Patriarch of Venice and cited 40 witnesses for the canonization of the late Pope Piux X. The parish priest of San Salvatore made depositions concerning miracles attributed to the late pontiff...