Word: abrahamisms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...still pays most of the expenses of Labor Temple in seething 14th Street, learned with consternation that they now were identified with a lean, Netherlands-born preacher who only lately had ceased believing in revolution by violence. Labor Temple, meeting place for workers of all faiths, had chosen Rev. Abraham J. Muste to be its director, succeeding the late Rev. Edmund Bigelow Chaffee (TIME, Sept...
Schooled mainly in Reformed theology, Abraham Muste held Reformed and Congregational pulpits, was head of Brookwood Labor College 1921-33, has been secretary of the Amalgamated Textile Workers, has spent nights in jail (for "agitating"). Though he has recanted the barricades, he is still vaguely Marxian, vaguely Trotskyite, mostly ''Musteite"- as other sectarian radicals call his followers of the American Workers' Party. Preacher Muste now has enough taste for organized religion to say: ''The Church, weak and imperfect as it may be, exists, and it seems to me that after the example of Jesus...
Edwin Seymour Smith, 45, no kin to Donald Wakefield, has an even more extensive Labor background. After Harvard and a stretch of reporting for the Springfield Republican and Hartford Times, he became employment manager of Boston's famed Filene Department Store and personal assistant to Board Chairman Abraham Lincoln Filene. In 1931 he was appointed Massachusetts' Commissioner of Labor & Industries, left that job to join the old NRA Labor Board. Ruddy-faced, blue-eyed, a snappy dresser given to loud neckties, he reads omnivorously, has written several economic treatises, relaxes week ends on his farm in Loudoun County...
Seventy-two years ago last week a tall, grave man with chin whiskers entered Ford's Theatre in Washington to see a performance of Our American Cousin. Eleven hours later he was dead. Last week on the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's assassination famed Collector Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach exhibited in his cluttered Philadelphia office a collection of Lincolniana which he values at more than $1,000,000. An important item was the notes of Dr. Charles S. Taft, the army surgeon who attended Lincoln's last hours...
Though 75% of the stock in Hart Schaffner & Marx is still owned by the founders' heirs (another 15% by officers and employes) the only Hart Schaffner or Marx active in the business today is Vice President & Secretary Abraham S. Hart, son of one of the two brothers who really started the business. The Brothers Hart, Max and Harry, were German Jews from Eppelsheim who had been taken by their parents to the U. S. with eight other children before the Civil War. Vice President Hart recounted last week how the twelve big & little Harts, upon debarking in Manhattan after...