Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week been president of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America for four years and it was necessary that someone be elected to replace him. Accordingly, the delegates, convened last week in Rochester, N. Y., cast their votes and Bishop Francis J. McConnell, now of the New York Area of the Methodist Episcopal Church was discovered to have been made president...
Bishop McDonnell is the sixth president the Council has had since it was organized 20 years ago. Two of his predecessors like himself have been Methodists; Dr. Cadman is a Congregationalist, a radio-preacher, a columnist on the New York Herald Tribune, and pastor of the Central Congregational Church in Brooklyn. Before the convention opened he spoke briefly in Manhattan to the effect that he did not plan to accept $25,000 yearly to preach over the radio and to the effect that too many Protestant dollars are used to build hideous churches...
Engaged. Ralph Pulitzer Jr., Manhattan newsman, son of President Ralph Pulitzer of the New York World; to Bessie Catherine Aspinwall of Pasadena, Calif., great granddaughter of the late Capitalist Moses Taylor...
...Canterbury, and thus ecclesiastical head of the Church of England, with royal pomp and circumstance in the historic cathedral of his See. Long intimate friend, honorary chaplain of Queen Victoria, persistent and smiling bachelor in spite of her advice to marry, Dr. Lang was most recently Archbishop of York...
Died. Edward Jones Pearson, 65, since 1917 President of the New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R., potent force in its post-War rehabilitation; from cerebral hemorrhage; in Baltimore...