Word: revs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before a big bonfire on Duquesne University's campus ("the Bluff") in Pittsburgh fortnight ago, stocky, fortyish Rev. Thomas R. Jones danced in Roman collar and black hat. To 2.000 Duquesne students gathered to warm up for next day's football game with arch-rival University of Pittsburgh, Philosophy Professor Jones roared: "Duquesne's football players will be out there fighting because they love their school. The Pitt team will be out there fighting, too, but only for their weekly pay checks...
Last week Father Jones failed to appear before his philosophy classes. The whole campus knew he was closeted with Duquesne's president, Monsignor Jeremiah J. Callahan. Soon President Callahan announced: "The resignation of the Rev. Thomas R. Jones from the faculty . . . has been accepted. He feels ... he has inadvertently placed Duquesne University in an unfavorable light and that his resignation may clarify the situation." Campus consensus was that ardent football fan Father Jones had been punted out. His students staged a strike but it quickly collapsed and Father Jones packed himself off to brood on the discovery that...
...produced, when the bishops gathered to vote behind closed doors, numerous other names. Of these write-in candidates, one 63-year-old showed such strength on the first ballot that he received a majority on the second, was then elected unanimously by both bishops and deputies. His name: Rt. Rev. Henry St. George Tucker, Bishop of Virginia...
...bent. From 1899 until 1923, save for a period when he was a major in the A. E. F., he served in the Orient, part of the time as Episcopal Bishop of Kyoto, Japan, and president of St. Paul's College, Tokyo. In 1923 he succeeded his brother, Rev. Beverley Dandridge Tucker Jr., as theology professor at Virginia Theological Seminary, was elected Virginia's bishop coadjutor in 1926. Said he, surprised at his election last week: "I do hope we may all unitedly go forward to the equalization of the great missionary task which Our Lord has entrusted...
Last week Most Rev. Edward Mooney, new Archbishop of Detroit, cracked down on his most famed priest, Rev. Charles Edward Coughlin, as had been predicted he might (TIME. June 14). To reporters Father Coughlin had said that Justice Black's appointment was a monument to President Roosevelt's "personal stupidity." had further opined that Catholicism and the C.I.O. are incompatible. Last week in his official Michigan Catholic, Archbishop Mooney expressed his regret for Father Coughlin's language, took issue with him on his reasoning. Two days later Father Coughlin announced that he was canceling his contract...