Word: bishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manning became Bishop of New York, and the 125,000 registered members and 400 clergy of the crowded 4,763-square-mile diocese soon learned that they would have to toe a straight ecclesiastical line. Firmly championing the sanctity of marriage as defined in the canons of the Episcopal Church, he kept a tight rein on ministers who might be tempted to stretch the rules a little in order to allow the divorced to remarry. He made newspaper headlines in 1921 by preventing the Rev. Percy Stickney Grant from marrying a divorcee, and again in 1926 by attacking the Roman...
...that a victory for Wene would have returned to 73-year-old Frank Hague the political empire he lost when Democratic maverick John V. Kenny dethroned him in Jersey City last May. Wene, besides Hague's dubious help, also had the ill-advised support of Roman Catholic Auxiliary Bishop James A. McNulty, who opposed Driscoll's position against bingo (TIME, Oct. 24), and ordered nuns to distribute circulars to parochial schoolchildren urging the election of the Hague candidate. The potent C.I.O. stayed "neutral," and, though it didn't want to admit to admiring a Republican, covertly worked...
Family Affair. In Leicester, England, interrupted by a passerby as he stabbed a woman in the back, Bertram Bishop quickly explained: "It's all right, it's only my wife...
...came to New York patronized by Bishop Gilbert of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Here he learned about an opening at Harvard...
...CRIMSON checkup revealed last night that none of New Haven's seven biggest hotels have vacant rooms of any sort for the weekend. The Hotels Bishop, Court, Duncan, Garde, Stand, and Taft and the Lincoln House are all booked...