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...week he received a harsh snub from Dr. Alexander Griswold Cummins, rector of Christ Episcopal Church, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., 61, editor of the denominationally liberal Chronicle (monthly) who had been suggested for the post. Dr. Cummins con siders Bishop Manning theocratic. Said he: "I have no desire to be errand boy for Bishop Manning or any other bishop." Missouri. In the presence of ten bishops William Scarlett, 46, dean of Christ Church Cathedral, St. Louis, last week was consecrated Bishop Coadjutor of Missouri. Before his deanship at Christ Church he was for eleven years dean of Trinity Ca thedral, Phoenix...
...deliberated long on his choice of professions: chose to be a merchant, went to work in Philadelphia as an errand boy. On his way to work he carried his shoes in his hand till he came to the city, to keep them from getting dusty. By the time the Civil War came, Wanamaker had saved enough money to go into business with his brother-in-law, Nathan Brown. The new firm advertised itself in conspicuous ways: by posters, by balloons, by tally-hos, by rhymed jingles in the newspapers...
Another Big Business errand last week took President Hoover to the great brown-panelled hall of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce across Lafayette Park from the White House. There under the bright flags of Columbus, DeSoto, Cortez and Cabot waited the 400 of U. S. industry-men like James Augustine Farrell (steel), Charles E. Bockus (coal), Matthew Scott Sloan (power), John G. Lonsdale (banking). Frank A. Seiberling (rubber), Roy Wilson Howard (newspapers), Frederick H. Ecker (insurance), Homer Lenoir Ferguson (shipbuilding). To a man they rose and cheered the President as he began to read them his speech...
...distinguished brother-in-law was engrossed in great affairs of state, Mrs. Rogers went on another of her frequent trips to Washington. If she thought at all of her jail experience it was now a dim, happy memory, for women now have their votes and Mrs. Rogers' present errand was most peaceable. She went to present to a meeting of the National Woman's Party a suggestion for a convention of international law to eliminate discrimination against women in matters of nationality...
...wigs gathered last week at Atlantic City for a farewell feast to Walter Evans Edge, once their U. S. Senator, now U. S. Ambassador to France. Most memorable remark of the evening: Senator George Higgins Moses' reference to the Senate as ''that contenated order of glorified errand boys." The evening's news: announcement by Governor Morgan Foster Larson that he would appoint Dwight Whitney Morrow, U. S. Ambassador to Mexico, to fill Ambassador Edge's seat in the Senate when Mr. Morrow returns from next month's London Naval Conference...