Word: associationism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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I read with much chagrin and vexation your account American Dental Association meeting at Washington (TIME, Oct. 21). One can readily see that it is the gibbering of some disgruntled reporter.
Your writeup on the American Dental Association was a good one. For if you can go to a convention and see a more high-hatted bunch, their nose in the air, half-educated demagogs, than these self-styled dental fraternity men, you will have to name it. Their conventions are...
God-fearing citizens were indignant, agnostics surprised, atheists delighted, at a letter mailed and made public last week by one Freeman Hopwood of Manhattan who signed himself "General Secretary of the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism, Inc." The letter:
"The American Association for the Advancement of Atheism, Inc., with members in every state and territory of the Union, and on behalf of millions of unorganized Atheists, respectfully requests that you refrain this year from issuing the Thanksgiving Proclamation.
Of the 400 visitors expected, 100 are members of the Boston association, while college facility members, clergymen, and laymen compose the remaining 300. They will attend any one of the three round tables which will begin Tuesday afternoon.