Word: rectorate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...come to arrest our 4,000 scholars." retorted the nudist rector, "they will follow you through the streets of Berlin to jail, willingly but nude...
...talk over our audiences." That was Dr. Joseph Fort Newton's thought when, three weeks ago, he began to syndicate a daily 500-word religious talk called "Everyday Religion," first feature of note since Rev. Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman went into pious colyumny. Famed liberal preacher, now co-rector of St. James's Protestant Episcopal Church in downtown Philadelphia, Dr. Newton had been solicited by General Manager Monte Bourjaily of United Feature Syndicate, who had heard of him from Editorial Director Malcolm W. Bingay of the Detroit Free Press...
...Protestant Episcopal Church, at 114th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue, was once all white. The southward spread of Harlem has turned it Negro by 300 souls to 50. Much vexed were a group of white vestrymen, led by one Manuel Jesus Roure, who blamed it all upon the rector, a lank, thin-lipped onetime curate of Trinity Church named Rev. Rollin Dodd. The vestry ordered Rector Dodd to cease encouraging the Negroes. When he refused the vestry asked him to resign, stopped his salary. When this failed they had the church closed, "for repairs,'' and the locks changed...
...York's Bishop insists upon seemliness and order in his diocese. Too, he displayed pride last fortnight in the fact that New York has more Negro Episcopalians than any other diocese North or South. Last week he jumped to Rector Dodd's defense, announced he would preach in All Souls'. When Manuel Jesus Roure threatened to keep him out by "legal means," Bishop Manning said, ''I shall be there...
Sunday morning Bishop Manning put on his biretta, Episcopal vestments, academic hood. When he arrived at All Souls', he found the rector, the superintendent, twelve policemen and a large crowd waiting. Bishop Manning demanded the keys. The superintendent had none. "Shall we break in?" asked Rector Dodd. "Yes!" said the Bishop loudly and firmly, adding that church law and civil law sanctioned him. Rector Dodd had with him a lock smith. While Bishop Manning waited, they went through the basement, sanctuary and nave, removing hinges, picking locks, at last smashing the padlock on the front gates of the church...