Word: revs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only a new man but also a new office was silhouetted upon the consciousness of the U. S. public last week. The House of Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church elected the Rt. Rev. John Gardner Murray, seventh Bishop of Maryland, to be the first elected Presiding Bishop of the Church. His election was approved by the House of Clerical and, Lay Deputies, which together with the House of 132 Bishops, constitutes the Church's Government, in session for the past fortnight at New Orleans (TIME...
...Secretary of the Treasury. He is in charge of Prohibition enforcement. He was put in charge to take the Prohibition unit out of politics. In so doing he appointed Herbert H. White Prohibition Administrator at Fort Worth, with jurisdiction over Oklahoma. Mr. White ousted from office Prohibition agent, the Rev. Mr. Thoroughman* of Lawton, Okla. Several churches objected. Last week the following letter from U. S. Senator Harreld, Republican of Oklahoma, to Mr. Andrews was made public...
...House of Deputies, comprised of rectors and laymen, on assembling was obliged to elect a new President because the Rev. Dr. Alexander Mann who held that post had been consecrated Bishop of Pittsburgh. So on the second day of the meeting, scheduled to last for 18 days, an election was held. The choice fell on the Rev. Dr. Ernest Wilmore Stires, who lately resigned as Rector of St. Thomas Church, Manhattan, and is now Bishop Coadjutor-elect of the Diocese of Long Island. The defeated candidate was Dr. George Craig Stewart of Evanston, Ill., supported by much of the conservative...
...bookplate, in Greek, is pasted at the foot of the title page and is dated 1633, indicating that it was printed while he was still in residence in the University of Cambridge. The Bible was presented to the Library in 1841 by the Misses Dunster, daughters of Rev. Isaiah Dunster, of the class of 1741, a great grandson of Henry Dunster, the first president of the College. Another volume of age and significance is called 'New England's First Fruits', 1643, which contains the first printed account of the foundation of the College and the first mention in print...
...Rev. Frederick George Scott, Canon of Quebec Cathedral and Rector of St. Matthews Church, Quebec, will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel at 8.45 o'clock this morning...