Word: staging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York, Philadelphia. In Rochester: he attacked Republican Boss George W. Aldridge. Brewer Henry Hathaway (warden of his church), in spite of the tearful protestations of his bishop, William D. Walker; attacked also the Standard Oil Co.; won notoriety by marrying two actors of a burlesque troupe on the stage of Rochester's Old Corinthian Theatre. In Philadelphia: he denounced local politicians, Bishop Coadjutor Alexander Mackay-Smith, Bishop Philip Mercer Rhinelander; defended Professor Scott Nearing who was ousted by the University of Pennsylvania for "radicalism." He was tried (1914) before the Chancellor of the Diocese on 14 counts of conduct...
...South the most galling pictures were drawn. One Adalbert J. Volck of Baltimore struck upon the novel idea of showing ''Honest Abe" as an evil Negro. In a delicate line drawing Volck depicted Lincoln as a Negroid puppet-master capering on a stage, surrounded by his puppets who are seen to be Cabinet Members Chase, Cameron and Welles and Generals Fremont, Scott and McLellan. When, as President-elect in 1861, Lincoln journeyed to Washington, receiving great acclaim in the northern cities, he was warned to forego a visit to Democratic Baltimore. Friends commissioned Allan Pinkerton, spy (later founder...