Word: revs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General's views echoed those of the Most Rev. John Francis O'Hara, Roman Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of the Army & Navy Diocese. Said he: "One sacrifice that many a woman is making today is the postponement of marriage, when she sends her soldier sweetheart away with a smile and a promise to wait, in the thought that she will not add to his burdens the worry of a wife back home...
...taking command of the nation's first army, prayed in his white pew in Christ Church, Alexandria, Va. Before his decision to take command of the Virginia forces, Robert E. Lee prayed there in 1861. In Alexandria, at daybreak Thursday, the balding, vigorous, 34-year-old rector, the Rev. Edward Randolph Welles, summoned eight young men of the parish, gave them a Secret-Service-combed list of 250 parishioners' names, admission cards...
Harlem's 200,000-odd Negroes had their first representative in the New York City Council this week, and the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. took another step toward becoming the popular hero of U.S. Negroes...
...them was Religion's undoubted Man of the Year, the Most Rev. William Temple, the Archbishop of York. At Malvern, and recently again at another gathering of British churchmen (see p. 41), he took the lead in attempting to set up better standards for the world to follow when slaughter is done. When his work is complete-if it is as farsighted as it is good-willed-he may do more to influence the future of the world than all the leaders of state. That fulfillment, however, is yet to come...
...Charles Jenkins," wrote Schoolteacher John, "married a Russian girl and Timoshenko (Timothy Jenkins) is their eldest son. Timo's grandfather was the Rev. Caractacus Jenkins, a fine nonconformist preacher in both English and Welsh . . . and he was also a Welsh bard...