Word: affirmation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Normal Park Baptist Church in Chicago has called Milton M. McGorrill to be the shepherd of its flock. A few months ago the Long Island Baptist Association refused to ordain Mr. McGorrill because he declined to affirm the Virgin birth. There immediately arose a question the answer to which has never been made plain to the public: When is a church Baptist and when is it not? Ditto, every Protestant denomination...
...most unexpected and startling acts of the National Civic Federation, a patriotic organization which has just finished its annual convention in New York, was the passage of a resolution, by a close vote, recommending that the President parole I. W. W.'s and other political prisoners provided they affirm their allegiance to the Constitution of the United States. The resolution was offered by Archibald Stevenson, considered to be the most indefatigable prosecutor of the Reds in America, and the brains of the Lusk Committee, which published three years ago a seven volume report on Red activities throughout the country...
...anybody can pick up a fistful and use it, as we see in the picturesque comments on the life, character and activities of his honor that are sometimes heard at the State House. If Mr. Curley and his aviates and Mr. Hylan and his critics are what they mutually affirm each other to be.... If is weary work uplifting an ungrateful community. The Boston Transcript...
...able to keep in touch with what is going on in the very centers of revival by reading the pages of papers from Milan, Geneva and Vienna. Add to the list of men who will make use of the new files, all who regard an acquaintanceship with international affirm and current events a part of their education, and there remain few, indeed, who will not welcome the addition to the Union's library...
Those who saw the elaborate and highly amusing "Governor's Wife" last spring will affirm that the Dramatic Club has only to live up to its past reputation to make the "Dragon's" first appearance a notable...