Word: revs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sydney, Australia, New South Wales Supreme Court Justice Ernest D. Roper granted an injunction to 23 outraged parishioners of the Anglican Bishop of Bathurst, Rt. Rev. Arnold Lomas Wylde, restraining the bishop from introducing "Romish" practices into his diocese. Departing from the Book of Common Prayer, Bishop Wylde was accused of introducing into the Communion service such customs as ringing the Sanctus bell and making the sign of the cross. Commented Justice Roper: "It is quite deplorable that members of a Christian community have been unable to settle differences without recourse to litigation...
...Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill (Sun. 11:30 a.m., Mutual). The Presiding Protestant Episcopal Bishop in America, in an appeal for European relief...
Last week, the Very Rev. Robert I. Gannon, president of Fordham University, said it in words that everybody could understand. Said Father Gannon, "The fraud in the present campaign for educational inflation consists in spreading our national culture perilously thin and calling it 'democracy of education.' It consists in swelling the number of incompetents in American colleges and calling it 'equality of opportunity...
...President's week was, in many ways, as comfortably old-fashioned as his heating arrangements. Not in many a moon had he glad-handed so many people-from turbaned, bearded Most Rev. Dr. Mar Ivanios, Catholic Archbishop of Trivandrum, Travancore, India, to Eddie Jacobson, the Kansas City haberdasher who used to be Harry Truman's partner...
...next fifty years his wife and then his daughter entertained the Cambridge intelligentsia there. On one occasion, it is reputed that Maria Fay had Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, and William James in her kitchen at the same time, all shelling peas. It was also in Fay House that the Rev. Samuel Gilman, a friend of Fay's, wrote the words of "Fair Harvard" for the College's 200th anniversary...