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...northern New Jersey sea coast one winter's day in 1868, Rev. William B. Osborne, Methodist minister and onetime Philadelphia marble dealer, left his horse & buggy on the highway, wandered among sand dunes, knelt in prayer. There, during the following summer, he put up a tent, held religious services. Later, with a pious Manhattan brush maker named James A. Bradley, he formed the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, began selling lots. Ocean Grove prospered...
...pass through the portals of the Church of the Blessed Sacrament. There on a throne sat Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Apostolic Delegate to the U. S., whose name (pronounced chee-kone-yonny) had become to many an impious Detroiter "Chicken Annie." Three papal bulls were read and Archbishop Mooney knelt in prayer until the Apostolic Delegate led him to the throne, placed a crosier (crook) in his hand...
...Tabernacle, speaks over the radio, publishes a weekly paper for his devoted flock. As head of Trinity Tabernacle Corp. he is entitled under an Illinois charter to ordain ministers. One night last week 1.500 people packed Trinity Tabernacle to behold Evangelist Drake perform his 15th ordination. While the candidate knelt before him the evangelist spoke routine words of blessing. Then Dr. Drake lifted the newly created minister to a chair behind the pulpit and a middle-aged woman who had been hovering in the background gave the new divine's nose a quick wipe. Chubby little Rev. Charles Jaynes...
...Derby and the Marquess of Londonderry, two senior peers. They shuffled into position, marched up the aisle towards the woolsack whereon sat Viscount Hailsham, Lord Chancellor, speaker of the House of Lords. At each three steps they paused to bow. When at last they reached the woolsack, Earl Baldwin knelt, got up, moved to a reading desk where a clerk sonorously summoned him "to sit among the Lords of the realm." Earl Baldwin was clearly uncomfortable. He searched for non-existing pockets, scratched his brow, had to be reminded to sign the Lords' register, take the oath, kiss...
...appoint you Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury." These were the traditional words, spoken by King George, that greeted Mr. Chamberlain a few minutes later. Mr. Chamberlain knelt, kissed His Majesty's hand. The King passed over the seals of office and the keys of the Prime Minister's dispatch box. 'Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain rose to his feet. By this brief ceremony he had reached the top rung of Britain's political ladder, a height attained neither by his father Joseph nor his more-publicized late half-brother Sir Austen...