Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...noon the musicians packed up their instruments and departed. At the same hour Speaker Byrns, in striped trousers and cutaway, called the House to order and recessed it to hold the annual memorial service for dead Congressmen. As he did so, into the chamber filed Representatives Ulysses S. (for Samuel) Guyer of Kansas, John J. O'Connor of New York and Mary T. Norton of New Jersey. Behind them filed Mrs. Thomas David Schall, widow of the late Senator from Minnesota, in full mourning; Madam Senator Long, widow of the late Senator Huey Pierce Long; a dozen other relatives...
...pigeon which promptly took off for Manhattan, carrying a message to England's grizzled old George Lansbury, onetime Laborite leader. In Philadelphia arrived two birds named Paul Revere and Betsy Ross. One fluttered aimlessly around City Hall before it was captured, handed to Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson, who held it in one hand while with the other he bonged the Liberty Bell 19 times with a mallet. In Manhattan, in El Paso, in Phoenix and elsewhere, pigeons were released to fly somewhere else. In Miles City, Mont, a pigeon-fancier named Walter Dyba, who had shipped four birds...
...Church!"], and Orthodox U. S. Syrians had a new spiritual leader. But the man who was thus consecrated Archbishop of the Syrian Church of North America was not Professor Bashir. He was the priest of St. George's, a heavy-faced, black-bearded Archimandrite named Samuel David...
Between election and consecration had occurred several slips whose full import was understood only by U. S. Syrians. Samuel David, 43, emigrated from Syria to Toledo 15 years ago. He smokes costly Turkish cigarets, drives a big Packard, and when the votes were counted in Manhattan after last autumn's stormy election, Samuel David was at hand. When Samuel David failed to win the contest, he promptly charged that it had been uncanonically conducted. Archbishop Theodosios offered to compromise by elevating both Bashir and David, then withdrew that offer. Feeling he had been double-crossed, Samuel David marshaled Syrian...
...willing to dabble with him in muddied church waters, Archimandrite David lined up three sympathetic Russian bishops whose spiritual powers were, after all, as efficacious as those of any other Orthodox churchmen. In St. George's Church last week these, with the aid of four Orthodox priests, consecrated Samuel David. With his gilt-&-scarlet crown firmly on his swart head, Archbishop David thereupon waited for the Patriarch of Antioch to grant him jurisdiction, to which he felt canonically entitled. Failing that, a schism was forecast among confused U. S. Syrians...