Word: bishop
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...House of Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church accepted the resignation of Rt. Rev. Hayward Seller Ablewhite, Bishop of Northern Michigan, ordered his name stricken from its rolls. Reason: the Bishop is serving one to ten years in Jackson, Mich., prison for embezzling $99,000 in diocesan funds (TIME...
Gypsy Smith began evangelizing New York last month in The Bronx, delivered 13 sermons in rich, old Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, moved uptown again last fortnight. He winds up his engagement this week in no less august a fane than the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, with Bishop William Thomas Manning presiding. To his audiences, Gypsy Smith's black eyes have seemed as keen as ever, his voice mellow, his frame limber. (Only last year he married for the second time: a 26-year-old to whom he had long been "my hero.") Never a ranter, Gypsy Smith...
...Most Rev. John Carroll, bishop of Baltimore...
...headed by Arthur Balfour Baron Riverdale of Sheffield, 62, one of Britain's biggest, baldest, blondest, bluffest steel tycoons. Heading the Australian delegation was J. V. Fairbairn, Minister of Civil Aviation, a redheaded air fighter of World War I. Chief representative for Canada is Lieut. Colonel William Avery Bishop, V. C., honorary Marshal of the Royal Canadian Air Force. Now 45, short, chubby, softspoken, he scarcely looks today like the fierce-flying Ace Bishop who shot down at least 72 German ships in 1914-18 and once took on an entire German airdrome singlehanded, strafing its squadron...
...Prelates with most of the powers of a bishop, serving in lands where there is no hierarchy...