Word: tuckered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Never had a Presiding Bishop been elected so quickly-the closed session of the House of Bishops lasted little more than an hour.* Exclaimed his predecessor, the Most Rev. Henry St. George Tucker: "A wonderful man for the job!" High, low and liberal churchmen alike were agreed...
...shipbuilders overlooked no one: Sophie Tucker, Mrs. Henry J. Kaiser, Elsa Maxwell, Madame Ivy Litvinov, the Dionne Quintuplets, Barbara Douglas Arnold, daughter of Planemaker Donald Douglas. For helping to launch the S.S. Mormacisle a $225 gold pin was given to Mrs. James M. Mead Jr., daughter-in-law of the Senate investigator himself...
...Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, had come from England to watch the proceedings. Presiding over the House of Bishops was the Episcopal Church's nearest equivalent (it was not very near) to the Primate of All England: the Most Rev. Henry St. George Tucker, Presiding Bishop of the Church since 1937, due to retire in December...
...Protestant Episcopal weekly, the Witness, Presiding Bishop Henry St. George Tucker gave his answer:, "I certainly cannot conceive of the World Council nor any of its commissions joining with any group in an anti-Russian campaign. . . . What we are trying to do is to find some way in which nations who disagree can work together in achieving world peace and unity. . . . The great contribution which the Christian religion can make is to demonstrate the possibility of a 'Fellowship of Uncongenial Minds...
...Tucker Burr...