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...Baptists would be the largest Protestant denomination in the land (10,000,000 members) if their five bodies could only get together.* As it is, they are the most sectarian of sects. Their local congregations distrust creeds, abhor ecclesiastics, are not bound by anything the Conventions say or do. Last week the Southern Baptist Convention, concluding its meeting in Oklahoma City, remained equally independent toward interchurch unity. Baptist John Benjamin Lawrence spoke for his brethren when he deplored the "vast enveloping movement which aims to tie Baptists up in a bundle with other bodies with which they have no ecclesiastical...
...frankly ashamed of my country and my countrymen for indulging in the very intolerance they profess so sincerely to abhor in other nations and other people...
SUPERFICIAL, erroneous in places and uncritical throughout, "Jazz Journalism" is nevertheless a clever defense of the tabloid press and a direct rebuke to the upper classes which abhor it. Both the demand for such a press and the fact that it is avidly read, by these same upper classes is clearly demonstrated...
India's jute trade, which the female Yules abhor, was seriously tied up last February when the native workers in 40 out of 69 burlap mills went on strike. Coaxed back to work in May, they are still sore, may strike again this summer. Majority of these mills are British, but one of the largest and most elaborate belongs to the big U. S. jute twine maker, Ludlow Manufacturing Associates, whose main plant is at Ludlow, Mass. This company, which has been making jute products since the Civil War, now has assets of $25,700,000 and last year...
...Government upon every doctor of America to prove his right to be admitted to practice under the Federal law in addition to that which he is now enjoying under his local [State] acts. And then we will come about to the thing which I am utterly against and wholly abhor but which I tell you is on its way-the designation of a certain class of doctors named by the President or by some officers of the Federal Government who then become a board who are to pass upon their fellow doctors having the right to be admitted...