Word: rev
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Suddenly last week came a violent official reaction. The Rev. James Little, M. P., called Parliament's attention to the alarming state of affairs. Inspectors of the London County Council began visiting cabaret bottle parties ("clubs" at which customers may obtain liquor after legal drinking hours from wholesalers with whom they are registered), on the lookout for "abominable scenes." Two hundred M. P.s signed a motion in the House of Commons "deploring bottle parties." Britain's official moral police chief, Earl of Clarendon, Lord Chamberlain, convoked a conference to discuss nudity...
...Rev. William Lawrence has lived for ninety year. He has seen the Civil War come and pass. He has seen the Spanish-American War come and pass. He has seen the First World War. And now the Lord has vouchsafed that he should live to see the coming of a Second Great...
...would take the trouble to check these facts with the American Bible Society you would find out that in 1905 the Rev. Herman Frijling and the Rev. Leonard P. Brink began the reduction of the language of the Navajo Indians to print. This work has been progressing continuously ever since...
Last fortnight, the Most Rev. Samuel Alphonsus Stritch, newly installed Archbishop of Chicago, made his first clerical appointment. As a "reward and a promotion for Father Rowan's record of 14 years of service," the Archbishop made him pastor of a moderately good church, St. Lucy's, and explained that this appointment was made at Father Rowan's "expressed and repeated request." Last week the New World came out under a new editor: Father Dailey of the pro-Franco editorials. Gone was the "Big Broadcast...
...missionary district of Nevada" the National Council of the Episcopal Church three years ago sent tall, bustling Rev. Henry B. Thomas, a onetime chaplain at Princeton. The Rev. Mr. Thomas took over St. Stephen's House at the University of Nevada's gates, began to befriend Reno's Youth. Last fall he organized among the high-school boys & girls a Supper Club, which met at his house for eats, games, discussions. In no time at all they organized a Youth Movement...