Word: rectorate
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Unabashed by the general solemnity of the occasion, the cat walked up to the altar, brushed against the leg of the Rector, the Reverend Endicott Peabody, and scampered back down the aisle...
...strong churchman and believer in the beneficial effect of the Church upon boys' lives, under Dr. Thayer St. Marks became one of the leading Episcopalian church schools. In 1930 he retired as headmaster and at the same time as rector of St. Marks Episcopal Church in Southbore. Since then he has been living at his home in Southbore...
...Vickers unashamed spoke Sir Jonah Walker Smith, the right honorable member from their naval shipyard district of Barrow-in-Furness. "The investigators of the United States Senate used gangster methods," said Sir Walker with every out ward sign of indignation. "The activities of Sir Charles Craven [Managing Di rector of Vickers-Armstrong's Works & Shipyards] have for their object the finding of as much employment as possible...
...never come close to monopolizing his interests. Long a power in Virginia politics, he is credited with electing his friend Harry Byrd to the governorship. He has been president of American Newspaper Publishers Association and member of its NRA code committee, president of Community Chests & Councils, Inc., rector of University of Virginia's Board of Visitors. An active churchman, a fluent and witty public speaker, a leader in every benevolent project, he has been voted Richmond's most useful citizen...
...Last month Bishop Huston was in court in Seattle to defend his right to oust a rector, Rev. Charles Stanley Mook, without taking counsel with his Standing Committee (TIME, Oct. 8). Last fortnight the court ruled that the Bishop had violated civil and canon...