Word: chaplain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francisco, Presbyterian Dr. John Hayes Creighton, onetime chaplain, announced that he had oiled his army rifle...
...employed the device of deleting part of a sentence sent to you. It is true I did oil up my rifle, but for the purpose of shooting a buck. I killed a 96-lb. buck and regaled my men's club with it. Since my honorable discharge as chaplain in the last war, I have preached in season and out of season against the sheer folly...
Rabbi Shulman of Chicago and the Reverend Sidney Lovett, Chaplain of Yale University, will speak at a discussion on Jewish-Christian relations slated for 7.45 o'clock tonight at Brooks House...
...next day at Mrs. Roosevelt: "That is exactly the kind of stuff that got us into the war in 1917.") Plainer people began to sound off. Ex-Heavyweight Champion Gene Tunney called Lindbergh's speech "impertinence." Michigan's Senator Prentiss Brown called it imperialistic. A Reserve Officer chaplain in Seattle spoke of "Herr von Lindbergh." Sculptor Suzanne Silvercruys of New York City told Canadians she was glad her memorial commemorating Lindbergh's Paris flight had been broken in shipment. The Communist weekly, New Masses, said the speech revealed the "intricate conspiracies of the House of Morgan." (Anne...
Beford World War II broke, the number of army aumƦniers was increased to 600. The navy quota remained the same; the air force got 30. Catholic aumônier general (chaplain general), commanding 500-odd Catholic aumƦniers, is Monsignor Maurice Sudour, Archdeacon of St. Denis, who gets a general's pay, wears a general's star. Ordinary chaplains have no rank, but a captain's pay, wear religious garb behind the lines, khaki at the front. By special dispensation from Rome, all Catholic aumƦniers and other front-line priests may hear...