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Vermont has 429 clergymen, of whom less than 10% are Episcopalians. Last week Vermont Episcopalians met to choose their sixth bishop, successor to Rt. Rev. Samuel Babcock Booth who died last June. In four ballots they eliminated such of the 42 Vermonters as had been nominated, went outside the State for the third successive time, elected Rev. Dr. Joseph Wilson Sutton. 54, vicar of Trinity Chapel, Manhattan. Vicar Sutton learned of his election with surprise while vacationing in Mexico...
...Lords: ¶ Were treated to a vigorous denunciation of Democracy-particularly the U. S. brand-and a spirited defense of Fascism by that strong-minded patriarch, the Bishop of Exeter, Rt. Rev. Lord William Gascoyne-Cecil, whose father, the late great Marquess of Salisbury, was thrice Prime Minister...
...years. Wild as such talk probably was, there were among the big stockholders in James & Shakespeare, Ltd., the fallen pepper king's trading company, two names known to all England: Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen, tall, suave, icy board chairman of huge British-American Tobacco Co., Ltd.; and Rt. Hon. Reginald McKenna, bald, brainy head of Midland Bank, world's largest, and onetime Chancellor of the Exchequer...
Last week the Rt. Rev. Rt. Hon. Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram, Bishop of London, addressed the Anglican Church Assembly thus: "I talked the other day with six of the Reddest Communists in Poplar [London borough]. Their revolution was only skin deep; all they wanted was a square deal! In dealing with these people we are dealing with men of respect and courtesy...
Chimed in the Rt. Rev. Richard Godfrey Parsons, Bishop of Southwark, referring to Britain's wholesale destruction of millions of herring to raise prices: "Food under our system has been flung back into the sea. I say that is virtually a sacrilege, because it is flinging God's gifts back into His face. There must come a change in the system!" However, the Rt. Rev. James Geoffrey Gordon, Bishop Suffragan of Jarrow, felt that such talk "would seriously impair the Church's credit...