Word: zebarney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...left of the Senate aisle. On the right sat the widow, family and friends including Mr. Baruch and Harvey Couch, the Arkansas utility tycoon. Senators, Representatives, Justice Pierce Butler representing the Supreme Court, Army, Navy & Marine officers, diplomats jammed the chamber. A soprano sang Lead, Kindly Light, the Reverend ZeBarney Phillips, chaplain of the Senate, read the funeral service. The Reverend James Shera Montgomery, chaplain of the House, pronounced the blessing...
...lately suffered an attack of coronary thrombosis. The Chapter, a board of trustees including such Episcopalians as onetime Senator George Wharton Pepper, onetime Under Secretary of State William Richards Castle, onetime Ambassador to Great Britain Alanson Bigelow Houghton, retired Bishop Philip Mercer Rhinelander, Canon Anson Phelps Stokes, Senate Chaplain ZeBarney Thorne Phillips, was asked on the motion of Trustee Pepper to terminate Dean Bratenahl's incumbency, tender him the offices of dean emeritus and titular chairman of the building committee. With all but the foregoing members abstaining from voting, the Chapter thereupon retired Dean Bratenahl. To the press...
...minority truly convinced that the Episcopal Church is no more Protestant than the Church of England or the Eastern Orthodox Church and therefore should not so call itself. When Dr. Beale left the rostrum the House of Deputies broke two precedents. It burst into tumultuous applause, and its president, ZeBarney Thome Phillips, chaplain of the U. S. Senate, announced that Dr. Beale might resume his speech when he felt able, despite a parliamentary rule to the effect that no delegate can speak twice on the same subject. But Dr. Beale spoke no more, explaining later that he had suffered "constriction...
...truant thoughts, direct our wandering wills, as once again with contrite hearts we fling ourselves as penitents in utter self-abasement upon the world's great altar stairs of prayer that slope through darkness up to Thee. . . . Through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen." With this prayer by Chaplain ZeBarney Phillips the U. S. Senate began its deliberations one noon last week...
...Davis' right to his seat had been challenged by Senator Nye's committee for investigating excessive campaign expenditures. He refused to join the Senate until cleared. Mr. Morrow's credentials were late in arriving from New Jersey. The Vice President rapped smartly with his gavel; Chaplain ZeBarney Phillips began to pray: "May passion for the Commonwealth consume all dross of unworthy ambition...