Word: revs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still waiting for the Head of the Church of Rome to condemn . . . Italy," snorted President Baron Dickinson of the World Alliance for Promoting International Friendship through the Churches last week in London. Stoutly rebutting for the Supreme Pontiff, Most Rev. Arthur Kinsley, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, explained that the Holy Father is "a helpless old man. ... As Head of the Church he has no grounds to interfere in purely political matters unless invited...
...problem of what to say about Pirate Drew may have bothered them in advance but the Methodists carried through admirably. At Drew's weedy grave in Drew's neglected private cemetery, Drewsclift, to which some 75 pious people made pilgrimage last fortnight, Rev. Earl S. Scott of the Drew Church took the line that "he lived in a different way than ours," that "some of his money was nobly used." Dr. Philip S. Walters, onetime president of Drew University alumni, praised Drew's philanthropies but went so far as to say: "I would...
...well, increased its assets from $8,500,000 to $32,000,000, largely through good management and the fact that among its best friends has been J. P. Morgan. Last week the less-publicized Presbyterian Church Pension Board revealed that it, too, has friends in high places. Its secretary, Rev. Henry B. Master of Philadelphia, announced that the Board's assets have increased from $5,000,000 in 1910 to $35,000,000 today. On its rolls are 96% of all Presbyterian ministers and missionaries, its retired beneficiaries receiving $2,000,000 a year. Secretary Master explained...
...afternoon of the Maisonette's opening, the Rev. Vasily Kurdiumoff, portly, bull-voiced rector of the Russian Orthodox Church of Jesus Christ the Savior, went down to the St. Regis, put on his ceremonial blue brocade riza. Assisted by the conductor of his choir, General Sergey Savitzky, he chanted prayers before an improvised altar on which ten candles illuminated an ikon. Then Priest Kurdiumoff presented a loaf of bread and a small silver salt cellar to Mrs. Anne Tiffany, decorator, and to Mrs. Vincent Astor. whose husband owns the hotel. Up to the priest, one by one, filed Russian...
...Portland last week after taking 24 ballots, Episcopal clergy and laymen elected Very Rev. Benjamin Dunlap Dagwell, 45, to be Bishop of Oregon. Pennsylvania-born Churchman Dagwell held pastorates in Keyport, N. J. and Pueblo, Colo, before going to Denver and its Cathedral of St. John in the Wilderness, where at 34 he was one of the youngest Episcopal deans in the U. S. Hard-working Dean Dagwell is chairman of the Denver Bureau of Public Welfare. Said he of his election: "It leaves nothing to strive for, except to hold on to one's job through good work...