Word: episcopalian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good preacher: "He should get religion like a Methodist; experience it like a Baptist; be sure of it like a Disciple; stick to it like a Lutheran; pay for it like a Presbyterian; conciliate it like a Congregationalist; glorify it like a Jew; be proud of it like an Episcopalian ; practice it like a Christian Scientist; propagate it like a Roman Catholic; work for it like a Salvation Army Lassie; enjoy it like a colored...
...Unaware at that point were the Cooke brothers that they were about to become the greatest bankers in the country, to finance the greatest industrial enterprise in U. S. history up to that time (Northern Pacific), to fail with the greatest crash then on record. A blue-eyed, energetic Episcopalian whose only frivolity was playing his flute, Jay Cooke was born in Sandusky, Ohio in 1821, grew up in a hot Abolitionist country, served his apprenticeship in St. Louis, got into Philadelphia banking at the age of 18. Since his marriage in 1844 was happy, his prudent investments in railroads...
...department of the American University at Cairo for five years before he was called to Dartmouth. While at Cairo he introduced basketball to Egyptian youngsters, wrote the first book of basketball rules in Arabic, started a 16-team Nile Valley League which is flourishing today. Blond, squarejawed, and piously Episcopalian, Dr. Eddy is married, has two boys, two girls, can beat any of them at chess...
...reports of the Class of 1911 at Yale and Princeton. Mathematically average Yale-man of 1911, he found, "is a lawyer in New York, with an office downtown, and a house above the Grand Central on a side street east of Fifth Avenue. He is a Republican and an Episcopalian." His Princeton counterpart is 46, "in business with an office in lower Manhattan, lives in Montclair, N. J., has two children. He has seen every Yale game since the War." As stanchly Republican as their Harvard contemporaries, Yale and Princeton men will support Landon 80% and 92%, respectively...
...followed by a midweek retreat for physicians & surgeons. Old retreatants and new keep abreast of Malvern doings by reading the Malvern Mustard Seed, founded by Logan Bullitt, dress-shop owner and cousin of William Christian Bullitt, U. S. Ambassador to the U. S. S. R., and of Episcopalian Archdeacon James Fry Bullitt of the Pennsylvania diocese...