Word: revs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rev. G. Warfield Hobbs, chief publicity secretary of the Episcopal Board of Missions, remarked to Manhattan newsgatherers: "We are adhering strictly to the Mexican law. . . . As (Episcopal) Bishop Frank W. Creighton said shortly after his arrival in Mexico, 'Our Mission has nothing to do with diplomacy, industry or politics. . . . Mexico knows what is best for Mexico...
Plaster. A month ago Rev. J. Frank ("Killer") Norris shot D. E. Chipps to death (TIME, July 26 et seq.). Last week on Sunday, while the pastor shook the rafters with his transcendental, logical harangue, the plaster fell on his hearers, injuring two seriously, 200 slightly, the pastor...
...vinous banquet had been served in the latter's homestead with Moggs and Kendrick Glasby present, a banquet that incited a dastardly attack by the Ku Klux Klan ("a boy scout movement for children of 40 ... footpads and submorons, Sir!") which was repelled and its leader, the Rev. Pudley, captured in his white skirts. Nor before Ruth and young Kendrick, within a few hours of meeting, walked in a panic summer midnight to a mad prothalamium of crickets; lay together in cool damp grass and took counsel of a Debussy moon . . . "List, sweet Moon," Ruth said, "where I learned...
...Secretary Everett Sanders was ill, Confidential Secretary Edward T. Clark was away in Boston. The President found himself at the Executive offices near Paul Smith's Hotel one morning, opening the mail and attending to the affairs of the Republic with the aid of his stenographer only. ¶ Rev. Charles R. Erdman of the Princeton Theological Seminary occupied the pulpit of the little Presbyterian Church at Saranac Lake, N. Y., whither came the President and Mrs. Coolidge, Frank W. Stearns, Senator Cameron of Arizona. ¶ Last December soldiers in the barracks at Culebra, Panama Canal Zone, watched horrified while...
...Rev. Norris' text was "How God gave answer to a conspiracy", in which he tear-wringingly described how three of God's faithful were victimized by Conspirator Nebuchadnezzar and cast into a fiery furnace, but how God delivered them from their persecuting flames. (Pastor Norris speaks often of a Catholic conspiracy against him). Ominously one Lloyd P. Bloodworth, Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, rumbled fervent amens from the front...