Word: revs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House Chaplain, Rev. James Shera Montgomery, to whom the annual memorial service is his one big occasion, closed his eyes, upturned his face, lifted his clasped hands toward the ceiling and began : "Almighty God, unto whom all hearts are open. . . ." A chord was struck on a small, cheap piano that stood beside the rostrum and Dorothy Reddish, a young woman employed by the Washington Telephone Company, sang There Is No Death. "The Lord Is My Shepherd. . . ." For ten minutes Chaplain Montgomery gave the mourners his best. Then Patrick J. Haltigan, House reading clerk, began : "Huey Pierce Long, Senator from...
...Rev. Charles Jaynes, pastor in Detroit of a foursquare Gospel Church affiliated with Aimee Semple McPherson's organization has a chubby 6-year-old son. Charles Jaynes Jr. eats spinach, practices on his violin, cannot read. In Shreveport, La. last Sunday night, Preacher Jaynes wiped his small moppet's nose, led him out before a good-sized congregation. Not the father but the son began beating the pulpit with a childish fist, pointing a small finger to heaven and piping in a clear treble : "Man has a two-fold nature. He is both a material and a spiritual...
...Vatican City last week Pope Pius XI appointed Very Rev. Francis J. Monaghan, president of Seton Hall College in South Orange, N. J., to be Coadjutor Bishop of Ogdensburg, N. Y. with the right of succession to that upstate see now administered by Bishop Joseph Henry Conroy, 77. Affable Monsignor Monaghan, 45, was ordained in 1915 from the North American College in Rome, alma mater of many an able U. S. prelate...
...Nashville's ornate Cathedral of the Incarnation this week, Most Rev. William Lawrence Adrian, 53, lately an obscure Iowa priest, was to be installed as the seventh Bishop of Tennessee's 32,300 Catholics. Consecrated in Davenport by the august Apostolic Delegate to the U. S., Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Bishop Adrian later recalled how he had learned of his impending elevation : "There among my letters was a communication from the Holy See. With trembling fingers I opened it and read: 'The Holy Father has in mind to choose you Bishop of Nashville...
...Savannah Most Rev. Gerald Patrick Aloysius O'Hara, the tall, energetic Bishop of all the Catholics of Georgia, distinguished himself by storming violently at the Savannah Press. Reason: The newspaper ran a whimsical St. Patrick's Day editorial repeating the old fable crediting the Irish Saint with having granted women the privilege to woo during Leap Year...