Word: revs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House accepted all three resignations; approved, as automatic successor to Bishop Lawrence, Bishop Coadjutor Charles Lewis Slattery; elected, to succeed Missionary Bishop Thurston, the Rev. Dr. Thomas Casady of All Saints, Omaha, Neb.; to succeed Missionary Bishop Thomas, the Rev. Dr. Horace Percy Silver of the Church of the Incarnation, Manhattan...
...Coliseum, ancient Chicago political bear-pit, was last week the scene of a Northern Baptist convention. Oldtime revival songs swelled 5,000 throats until the Rev. James Whitcomb* Brougher, presiding, cleared his throat and keynoted: ". . .Let us keep the spirit of unity...
Elections. W. C. Coleman, wealthy lamp man of Wichita, Kan., was elected convention president for next year. Detroit was named 1928 convention city. The Rev. C. A. Brooks of Chicago was elected president of the American Baptist Foreign Society (missions), 1,585 'votes to 458 over J. Dabney Day of Los Angeles, fundamentalist candidate...
...Well, I can cook eggs " said the headmaster of a newborn preparatory school. He was addressing his students The Negro servants had just walked out because of the poverty of the school. That was in 1906 when the Rev. Frederick Herbert Sill took 18 boys and two faculty members to a farmhouse in the Berkshire Hills of Connecticut and founded Kent School. The beds-floors-eggs incident was the beginning of a student-supervised, student-broom-wielding system which runs the school to this day. Students regulate discipline, keep order in study hall, wait on tables, manage the athletic teams...
...Said the Rev. John Roach Strat-on, fundamentalist leader: "Both the Governor and the attorney general did wrong. They should have permitted the members of their families to die and have died themselves rather than violate their oaths of office. An officer of the law swears to support the law and his family interests should not cut the slightest figure once he has taken the oath...