In Washington's Mayflower Hotel one night last week gathered 1,000 people to salute Bishop James Hugh Ryan, retiring Rector of the Catholic University of America, who was about to depart to the diocese of Omaha to which the Vatican had promoted him (TIME, Aug. 19,). His purple robes swirling, his broad countenance twinkling, Bishop Ryan shook hands with such men as Ambassador Hans Luther of Germany, Assistant Attorney General Joseph Berry Keenan, Bishop James Edward Freeman and Canon Anson Phelps Stokes from the Episcopal Cathedral. President Roosevelt sent a letter which Postmaster...
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