Word: rectorate
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...Sloan still had barrels of money. He spent it with enormous gusto on a Sheepshead Bay mansion, a yacht, roulette, dice, loud clothes, parties at Shanley's, Rector's, Delmonico's. In 1907 he married Musicomedienne Julia Sanderson who divorced him a year later. Most of his fortune vanished in Wall Street because he attempted to "play" along with the rich men for whom he had ridden...
Going even further than the text of the 3,000 pastors' protest, the rector of Berlin's fashionable Jesus Christ Church cried: "When the government of the Church compels its preachers to proclaim that all other nations are inferior in comparison with the Nordic Germanic race, it is guilty of an arrogance and an uncharitableness that has no parallel in history. No Christian should dare even to breathe the suggestion of a 'ghetto church...
...died last August. Presiding Bishop James De Wolf Perry had chosen his man and the House of Bishops approved: Bishop Philip ("Phil") Cook of Delaware. A tall, grey-haired, hearty, eloquent churchman, Bishop Cook has been a missionary on the Dakota plains, a vicar in Manhattan, a breezy rector in San Antonio, Tex. and Baltimore. Missouri-born (July 4, 1875), he now lives at "Bishopstead" in Wilmington. His specialty has been home missions. When he went to the War he told his friends: "I don't know what I'm going to do along the lines...
...Catholic Action" agency, he began teaching philosophy at Catholic University in 1922. Six years later Pope Pius XI appointed him rector. Founded some 40 years ago, Catholic University is the only one in the U. S. controlled by the Pope and the U. S. hierarchy. It is designated to meet non-Catholic universities on their own ground, but not all Catholics have supported it or given as much money to annual collections as the clergy could wish. Rector Ryan reorganized it, gave it a new constitution. Despite criticism from within the church he admitted women to the Graduate School, increased...
...made a bishop of a man of only 46 because it approved his work as pedagog during the past decade. In Washington some 2,000 people crowded into the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on the campus of Catholic University of America, to see the consecration of its rector, Most Rev. James Hugh Ryan, as Titular Bishop of Modra...