Word: adventism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Christian of good family. Martin, a solid businessman, had also married a Christian; his only son Berthold was the family pride. When the Nazis began their climb to power the Oppermanns saw that the anti-Jewish propaganda might have some temporary effect on business. First storm-warning was the advent of a new master at Berthold's school, famed both for its sound scholarship and liberal atmosphere. The new master, a Nazi, disapproved of liberalism, disliked Jews, hated anyone who poked fun at the pompous rodomontades of his Leader. Soon he and Berthold were at daggers drawn...
...last week: "This idea is a mighty fine one, especially at this time. There are many men here who would not have been here five years ago. They committed no strange offenses. They merely carried on the business practices they had been used to. But these practices, with the advent of Depression, became criminal...
...student's own mind. We have discovered that education is not passive but active; that a lesson learned by rote is a lesson forgot. Methods of education of the older generation were undesirable, not only because they were passive, but also because they proved themselves impracticable with the advent of mass education. Lectures grew more formal, great numbers of text books were written from the lectures, and teachers of younger grades were expected to teach by expounding them. The utter futility of this as an educational method has begun to dawn on the whole academic world...
Died. Henry Mouquin, 97, famed Manhattan restaurateur and wine merchant; of old age; at his Williamsburg, Va. estate which he bought in 1871, and to which he retired in disgust at the advent of Prohibition. Born near Lausanne to a family of Swiss hotelkeepers. he used to say that his father fed him a spoonful of wine before he was allowed to suckle. Next to Prohibition, he detested the machine age, refused to use a telephone or ride in an automobile. His favorite vehicle was a coach, originally built for President James Monroe, which he bought in 1870. Sometimes...
Many amazing and tragic things have taken place in Germany since the advent of the Nazis, but one of the most terrible has been the conflict between the new etatisme and the President Church. The attack upon Protestantism has come from within and without, from Teutonic prelates and Brownshirt authority. Dr. Reinhold Krause in a meeting at the Berlin Sport Palace boomed out his now famous four points: one, that all Jews be excluded from the Church; two, that ghetto parishes be instituted for the ostracized; three, that the Old Testament be thrown out because of its obviously Hebraic origin...