Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their nation-wide search for new silver-screen talent, the backers of the drive sent representatives to 37 universities, attracting approximately 15,000 aspirants for a trip to Hollywood...
...House accepted all three resignations; approved, as automatic successor to Bishop Lawrence, Bishop Coadjutor Charles Lewis Slattery; elected, to succeed Missionary Bishop Thurston, the Rev. Dr. Thomas Casady of All Saints, Omaha, Neb.; to succeed Missionary Bishop Thomas, the Rev. Dr. Horace Percy Silver of the Church of the Incarnation, Manhattan...
Newsgatherers and cameramen surprised Dr. Silver with news of his election, found him smiling but diffident. Twice before he had been elected a bishop but never yet been one. Election by the House of Bishops required ratification by a majority of all the members. In 1912, Dr. Silver was elected bishop coadjutor of Kansas only to have the whole House later veto the title, 50 to 48, because Dr. Silver is a divorced man, reputedly the only divorce ever elected Episcopal bishop. When elected coadjutor of Texas later, Dr. Silver declined sooner than risk another rebuff...
...last week he did not decline his third election. On the newsgatherers' heels came bishops from Connecticut, New Jersey, Colorado. These congratulated, reassured him. Surely, they might have said, the Episcopal Church need not fear being interpreted as a champion of divorce. Dr. Silver's divorce took place a long time ago. He has never remarried and has stricken mention of an unhappy episode of his youth from public records of his life. His reputation is high and enviable, as Nebraska pastor (1894-1901), as; U. S. Army chaplain (1901-10), as mission secretary for the southwestern...
...hours. They are employes of the New York Central R. R., and "bands" is meant musically. The week of June 12 the men will take their instruments to Grand Central and LaSalle Street stations, respectively, and serenade the Twentieth Century Limited as it starts out June 15 on its Silver (25th) Anniversary...