Word: elect
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Brazil. Just arrived from Europe with his new wife and meeting them was Bishop James Cannon Jr., the Southern Methodists' missionary bishop of Brazil, as well as chairman of their Board of Temperance & Social Service. When at the end of this month Brazilian Methodists adopt their constitution and elect their own bishop, they will be independent of the Methodist Church, South. Last month Methodist Bishop Warren A. Candler (South) and Methodist Bishop Francis John McConnell (North) met in Mexico City with Mexican Methodists and wrote a constitution for a Methodist Church of Mexico. The middle of next month Mexicans...
With 137 seats out of a possible 245 and a clear majority over all political parties, the Conservative party ousted Canadian Liberals from their nine-year roost fortnight ago. Last week stern-jowled Richard Bedford Bennett, Prime Minister-elect, was cock of the Canadian walk. Editors in Britain and the U. S. sat back to analyze the results...
...Robert Todd Oliver, 63, of Philadelphia, bemedalled chief of the U. S. Army dental corps, instructor of military tactics and dental science at the University ! of Pennsylvania took office as President of the American Dental Association; succeeding Dr. R. Boyd Bogle of Nashville, Tenn.: preceding President-elect Dr. Martin Dewey of Manhattan; at the association's Denver convention...
Appointed. Rev. Arthur Lee Kinsolving, 30, rector of Grace EpiscopalChurch, Amherst, Mass., son of Rev. Arthur Barksdale Kinsolving of Baltimore, nephew of Bishops George Herbert Kinsolving of Texas and Lucien Lee Kinsolving of Brazil; to replace Bishop-elect Henry Knox Sherrill as rector of Trinity Church, Boston. (Trinity Church called Bishop-elect Sherrill when he was 32. Russell Henry Stafford became pastor of Trinity's neighbor. Old South Congregational, when...
...such French satellites as Poland. Czechoslovakia and Jugoslavia. Significance. The game of debating the European Union will go on for years, with Aristide Briand as Perpetual Toastmaster. The kudos he will gain as the apostle of Peace may prove of great value when it comes time?next year?to elect a President of France. That shrewd and shaggy B'rer Briand is grooming himself for election as President of France everyone in Paris now knows for sure...