Word: agnosticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Buried. The ashes of Col. Robert Green Ingersoll, famed agnostic who died in 1899, and Mrs. Ingersoll; in Arlington National Cemetery; transferred after 33 years from the mantel piece of Daughter Maud R. Ingersoll Probasco's New York apartment. He served in the Civil War with the 11th Illinois...
Lawyer Clarence Darrow, professional agnostic, has appeared in some 30 forums on religion throughout the U. S. this year, all of them under the management of his old friend George G. Whitehead of Columbus, Ohio, a former lyceum promoter. Lawyer Darrow's standard theses are Tolerance, Good Will, Better...
Last week the Christian Century made further comment. The impression on the audience "is that of trains passing each other at high speed in opposite directions on parallel tracks. The real issues are not joined at all between Catholic and Protestant, between Christian and Jew, or between believer and agnostic...
"For many years he [Agnostic Darrow] has worn the late Robert Ingersoll's mantle as the exponent of infidelity and doubt before the American public. . . . He is therefore made the hero of the play, given the final place on the program, presented with effusive words in praise of his...
In a sun-drenched Riviera villa, high above champagne-soused Nice, lives the ex-Caliph of Islam who has no successor. Deposed and physically ousted from Turkey in 1924 by agnostic President Mustafa Kemal, Caliph Abdul Medjid Effendi is still to millions of Moslems "Commander of the Faithful" and "Viceregent...