Word: revs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rev. Henry Wise Hobson, 46, tall, affable Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Southern Ohio, bustled about Nippert Stadium of the University of Cincinnati one day last week, greeted 140 fellow-bishops, as they arrived by the dozen, with "You're on the home team, Bishop." and "You're on the visiting team today." For the procession of 1,000 bishops, clergy and laymen which was to open the 52nd triennial General Convention of the Church, bishops were to robe themselves in home and visiting team dressing rooms according to whether they had held office for ten years, or longer...
...Rev. William Benjamin ("Bill") Spofford of the Church League for Industrial Democracy, happy to see small Mayfair Theatre crowded with 500 or more listeners to liberal and radical speeches, had nothing but goodwill for New York's Bishop William Thomas Manning who had protested mentioning the C. L. I. D. on the official convention program. Never before had the group attracted more than 100 or so Episcopalians to its meetings. But since Episcopalians are prone to be tolerant and easygoing, they presumably were not affected by what Norman Thomas and others told them...
Until this week the sharpest turning point in the career of the Rev. Dr. Prof. L&233;vitt occurred in 1932 when his Independent Republican Party, with a Prohibition platform, drew enough votes from Boss J. Henry Roraback's candidates to insure some New Deal successes, although Gubernatorial Candidate L&233;vitt himself got only about 10,000 votes. For his services the New Deal, in a hasty move, took Mr. L&233;vitt to Washington as a special assistant to Attorney General Homer Cummings, himself a onetime Connecticut politician. Before long, zealous Dr. L&233;vitt was circularizing...
...students were handpicked by Professor Abbott, include: two film critics; an illuminator of manuscripts: three C. C. N. Y. undergraduates; Dr. Hermogenes Garavito, up from Colombia to get tips on the foundation of a film industry by his government; a rich girl, and (Most Attentive Student) the Rev. John J. McClafferty, executive secretary of the National Legion of Decency...
Locker-Boy Thomas Bowman jumped for the trailing fragment of anchor line, stumbled when he was about to grab it. As Aerialist Mingalone rose speedily, so did the alarm of his fellow Cameraman Philip Coolidge and his friend, Rev. James J. Mullen, Old Orchard priest, golfer, aviation enthusiast and expert skeetshooter who was watching the experiment...