Word: rejecting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more step towards authoritative acceptance. The revision (TIME, Feb. 21) had been approved separately by the houses of bishops, of clergy and of laity. Last week those three houses sitting in London as the Church Assembly voted 517 to 133 for the revised book. Next, Parliament must approve or reject it, but without emendations...
Last week he had opportunity to reject a bishopric a third time. The House of Bishops had elected him missionary bishop of Wyoming. For three weeks he pondered. Then last week when Bishop John Gardner Murray of Maryland, Presiding Bishop, went to Manhattan from the Church Congress in San Francisco, Dr. Silver sent him a letter. It read: "The action of the bishops of the Church in selecting me for the post of bishop of the Missionary District of Wyoming has received serious and prayerful consideration. It has, I confess, brought back to me many happy and sacred memories...
...numbers of the first year class will make it possible for us to select our men even more carefully than heretofore. Although we are more than a month from the closing date for applications, we have already had so many we can safely say that we shall reject more applicants than we admit. All applicants must be college graduates so that we shall have next year a very highly selected student group...
...join in certain policies, which expressions, however guarded and conditioned, would be looked upon by Europe as American commitments, while on the other hand the American Congress might take a differing attitude and the American Senate would consider itself perfectly free to disavow such views and policies and to reject any such commitments as would be subject to its control...
...repeated this performance and last week presented Mr. Tilson with a second recess appointment. Senators were vexed. Said Senator Harris of Georgia: "If he [the President] can withdraw appointments from confirmation and make recess appointments without limit, he can virtually deprive the Senate of its right to confirm or reject. It seems that an evasion of the Constitution is tantamount to an infraction...