Word: chaplain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...CHAPLAIN CALVIN H. ELLIOTT
...stern priest. The people of Zalaegerszeg, like most Hungarians, loved wedding feasts that lasted well into the next day. He indignantly ruled that there would be no more weddings on Saturday; he wanted all his flock fit for Mass on Sunday. Once he called in a young chaplain and said: "Last night I observed you walking along the river bank with a widow. First, I do not think it proper that a young chaplain walk alone on a lonely road at night; second, I do not think it correct for him to walk with a young widow; and third...
Methodist Harris, elected Chaplain of the U.S. Senate to succeed the late Rev. Peter Marshall, who died last fortnight (TIME, Feb. 7), was back at an old post. From 1942 to 1947 he had served as Senate Chaplain, until Peter Marshall's appointment by a Republican Senate. Many of Washington's leading politicos, especially in Democratic ranks, are his intimate friends; his study bookcases are lined with photographs of a variety of celebrities, from Winston Churchill to Cinemactress Marsha Hunt...
...earn his $2,520 a year, Chaplain Harris must turn up at each meeting of the Senate; custom dictates a different prayer each day. In olden days the Senate asked less of its chaplain: only legislative days were opened with prayer. But in 1939 the Senators decided that they should make a plea for divine guidance every time they met. Dr. Harris does not let his duties on Capitol Hill interfere with his regular work at Foundry Methodist Church, where next fall he will celebrate his 25th anniversary as pastor...
Died. The Rev. Peter Marshall, 46, Chaplain of the U.S. Senate since 1947; of a heart attack; in Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...