Word: 450th
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...Evangelical Church (TIME. June 12, et seq.). on deck to demand the super-Nazification of the Church. Their presiding officer was brisk, sleek, pomaded young Rev. Joachim Hossenfelder. Bishop of Berlin and Brandenburg. Their prime hot-head was one Dr. Reinhold Krause. Meeting a few days after the 450th birthday of their Church's founder, Martin Luther, they proceeded to juggle ecclesiastical dynamite. According to Nazi Pastor Krause, German Protestantism needed a "second Reformation." He submitted three reforms...
...members who will give $1 extra a month to liquidate the debt in five years. Congregational & Christian Churches, about 33% behind, will specialize in parochial visiting, coin banks and a church Guest Book. Lutherans, receiving "slightly" less than last year, will canvass in November when will come the 450th anniversary of Martin Luther's birth...
Every summer U. S. Lutherans hold a "Luther Day" picked arbitrarily so that Lutherans may enjoy it in the mountains or at the seashore. Last week came a Luther Day which was notable because it preluded bigger celebrations, to be held Nov. 10 on the 450th anniversary of Martin Luther's birth. Eastern Lutherans, gathered at Ocean Grove, a strict Methodist colony on the New Jersey coast, had the most eminent speaker-Dr. Walter Arthur Maier, editor of the Walther League Messenger (for the young), professor at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis...
Until this letter had well sunk in, Chancellor Hitler lay low last week, then sent up an amazing trial balloon. Nov. 10 will be the 450th birthday of Martin Luther. Flatly acting ReichsbischoF Müller stated that the Chancellor would then renounce Catholicism, become a Protestant and join "The National Evangelical Church." Since Reichsbischof Müller is Herr Hitler's close friend this announcement thunderstruck the Fatherland. Were even Catholics going to be dragooned into a National Church, a Nazi Church? For half a day Chancellor Hitler let the sensation sizzle. Suddenly he decided that Catholics must...
...middle of the next night he had better news. After 1 a.m. he was sitting up in bed working on his stamp collection (he had been presented that clay with the first of an issue of private stamps issued for the 450th anniversary of Martin Luther's birth) when word was brought to him that Congress had adjourned. Happy, he turned out the light and went to sleep conscious that he had been blessed as few presidents are: he had 1) got Congress to pass most of the laws he wanted, and 2) got rid of Congress...