Word: americanize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expected, U. S. Secretary of State Stimson was quick to quash this League talk. "American participation in the Five Power Disarmament Conference," he wrote, "will be separate, distinct, and apart from the League of Nations...
Omaha (population 222,800), with hired solicitors (American City Bureau) and 1,000 volunteers, raised $453,000 in its second successful drive in five years...
...Presbyterian Henry Sloane Coffin to officiate at a communion service in an Episcopal church (TIME, Nov. 25), think Episcopalians have no right to call themselves Protestants. Many high-church Episcopalians agree with them, dislike the name Protestant, would like to change their church's name to something like American Catholic.* Last week the P. E. high-church weekly, The Living Church, printed an article by Dr. Frederick Henry Lynch, Congregationalist minister, editor of Christian Work and Evangelist, entitled, "Is the Protestant Episcopal Church a Protestant Church...
...Communion service with Protestants, it proves this contention. Would not the Episcopal Church be much truer to both history and facts if it dropped the word 'Protestant' from its title and called itself what it really is: 'The Catholic Church'-Anglo-Catholic in England and American-Catholic in America? Then no Protestant minister would expect to be asked to share in officiating at its altars. He cannot, for the life of him, see why this act should be refused while the Episcopal Church calls itself Protestant...
...murder despatch. From London Dr. David Thomson, who has worked on the same problem, said: "Proving that one has discovered the true germ of influenza is in reproducing the disease in man or in animals by this germ in pure cultures . . . this is a very important part of the American's discovery...