Word: revs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...farther because of the downpour-the second inauguration of Franklin Roosevelt as President of the U. S. was a sentimental historical ducking in five acts Act I took place in mid-morning at St. John's Episcopal Church across Lafayette Square from the White House. There the Rev. Dr. Endicott Peabody, headmaster of Groton School, held services just as he did four years ago for his onetime student Franklin, for Franklin's mother, wife, sons, daughters-in-law, grandchildren, and miscellaneous kin* and friends. Act II lasted for 40 minutes, from the time Franklin Roosevelt entered the robing...
...from the city's Common Council (called "The Forty Thieves") and set up a Board of Police Commissioners, the history of New York City has been studded with drives against crime and corruption. In 1871 it was Samuel Tilden versus Boss Tweed, in the early 1900's Rev. Charles Parkhurst versus Boss Richard Croker, in the late 90's Theodore Roosevelt versus gamblers and scofflaw saloonkeepers, in 1902-09 William Travers Jerome versus vice and gambling, in 1905 Charles Evans Hughes versus insurance companies. Charles S. Whitman's sensational exposure of official corruption in his prosecution...
...week three middle-aged bishops consecrated a 33-year-old who thereupon became the youngest bishop in the U. S. Two years ago the youngest was a 32-year-old Roman Catholic, Auxiliary Bishop Raymond Augustine Kearney of Brooklyn (TIME, Jan. 7, 1935). Last week's youngest was Rev...
...Higgins was made Assistant Bishop of the New York and Philadelphia Synod, a confusing title since he will actually run the Synod, assisting no one. Episcopal mainly in that it uses the Prayer Book with "high" elements deleted, the Reformed Church was founded in 1873 by a discontented Episcopalian, Rev. George David Cummins. It invites all comers to Holy Communion, considers its bishops merely "head presbyters," no more potent than other priests. A typical, evangelical Reformed Episcopalian is Bishop Higgins, who acquired a touch of Presbyterianism at Princeton Seminary, whither he went after attending Columbia and the Reformed Episcopal Seminary...
...tough old days. Past President Charles E. Collins, who has been in the saddle for 50 years and still rides his 50,000 Colorado acres in sub-zero weather, could recall the time when nothing except long-horn cattle roamed the range. And presented to the convention was Rev. L. R. Millican, 84, a wrinkled, white-thatched Baptist circuit-rider who as a boy knew General Sam Houston, father of Texas independence...