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...McBride, as active lobbyist of the largest volunteer auxiliary the U. S. government possesses, will now have to buttonhole politicians and admonish them himself. Dr. McBride, a United Presbyterian preacher and long head of the Anti-Saloon League in woefully wet Illinois, will now have to battle singlehanded the causes of "crooks and bribery," which U. S. Prohibition Commissioner Lowman says are "rampant" in the Federal enforcement system. Last week, Dr. McBride was known to be picking a band of dry workers to rush into southern and midwestern states whence ominous sentiment has been issuing in favor...
...renounce a number of their errors and to agree basically (although with excuses) to proposals of the plenary session by giving a declaration. ... In view of this declaration, the plenary session has decided to withdraw the question about exclusion of Trotzky and Zinoviev from the Central Committee and to admonish them with severe blame and a warning." What did these so contradictory decisions portend? Soon the dean of U. S. correspondents at Moscow, Walter Duranty of the New York Times, cabled an opinion: "All signs now indicate that the Communist Party has emerged stronger than ever from what appeared...
...would, therefore, be greatly appreciated if, in the general interest of truth, you would publish a retractment of your statement and would admonish the writer thereof, who I must conclude, was led by his flair for the humorous to bring up thusly the ancient oriental question of "Hu flung dung...
...Department of the Interior, through its Bureau of Education, allied itself with the National Congress of Parents and Teachers* in a "concerted" campaign to admonish the parents of schoolchildren to prepare their offspring, physically and mentally, during the summer, for school in the fall. This pre-schcol preparation was to be accomplislied by physical examinations, instruction in discipline, proper conduct in the home...
Your action therefore in inviting Bishop Brown to officiate in your parish is in open contempt arid defiance of the authority and law of the Church of which you are a minister . . . and I hereby admonish you that if you proceed in defiance of the inhibition of the Bishop of the Diocese such action upon your part will be in direct violation of the constitution and canons of the Church, and will be regarded as conduct unbecoming a clergyman under the terms of Canon 28 of the General Convention...