Word: revs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rev. Granville Mercer Williams, rector of the Church of St. Mary the Virgin . . . S.T.D...
...Chicago last week the Factor case was still in a stage too early to be conclusive. The only swindled English people whose names came out were a Rev. & Mrs. Arthur Travers Faber, he the rector at Hurworth-on-Tees, Durham. This rural English couple managed to lose $55,-ooo, so they claim, in stockjobbing operations conducted by Jake the Barber in London. One job was selling stock in the so-called "Glass Casket Company," a speculation peculiarly appealing to the British investor. Another time Mr. Factor was about to mail out some 300,000 glowing descriptions of a platinum mine...
...Rev. Samuel Moor Shoemaker Jr., rector of Calvary Church, one of Princeton's first Buchmanites, declared: "Frank Buchman . . . did more than any other man to bring me to Christ...
...spanking breeze was blowing up one day last fortnight as the schooner Livonia nosed out to sea past Plana Cay near Acklin Island, Bahamas. At the helm was Rt. Rev. Roscow George Shedden, Anglican Bishop of Nassau, master and owner of the Livonia. A hearty amateur yachtsman, a onetime (1909-19) captain in the British Royal Fusiliers, Bishop Shedden has since 1919 been spiritual lord of the Bahama, Turk and Caicos Islands-a diocese embracing 13,122 church members, 83 churches, extending some 175,000 square miles of land and sea. To visit his flock he had embarked...
...after his return, the Rev. Shedden resigned as Bishop. The yacht disaster, he said, merely clinched an earlier determination to quit because, as he had told his good friend the Archbishop of Canterbury the diocese needed a change some time and he had done as much good as possible. Next week he will sail for England where, observers guessed, he will be rewarded with a diocese...