Word: atheistical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week one Loren H. Wittner, clerk in the Treasury Department and professed atheist, applied for an injunction to stop payment of salaries to the Superintendent of Schools in Washington, and the head of the Biology and Chemistry Departments of Washington high schools. He based his action on a rider to the District of Columbia appropriation act for this year which provides : ". . . that no part of this sum shall be available for the payment of the salary of any superintendent, assistant superintendent, director of intermediate instruction or supervising principal who permits the teaching of partisan politics, disrespect of the Holy...
...believe that any court will hold the oath constitutional, because swearing to it virtually means that Government clerks must accept the definite religion of Christianity. That would be a violation of the first article of the Constitution. As I am a true atheist, I could not conscientiously sign an oath containing those words, for that would have demanded that I lie." Said Congressman Thomas L. Blanton of Texas...
...College in this matter. For Harvard has realized, vaguely at first, but more and more through the years that all blind religion and superstitious ceremonialism inevitably must go. So dogmas have slumbered, compulsory chapel has ceased to exist, and Harvard has come to be called the college of the atheist...
...Kurds are demanding Kurdistan for the Kurds, an echo of the old cry of self-determination. To begin with, they have proclaimed Prince Selim, one of Abdul Hamid's sons, King of Kurdistan, and have also proclaimed themselves as crusaders in the holy cause of Islam against the "atheist" Kemalists who now govern Turkey from her new capital, Angora, in the heart of the Anatolian Peninsula. But the matter goes further. In effect, this is nothing more than the unfurling of the banner of the House of Osman, deposed by the Grand National Assembly in 1922, and raising...
...Professor Hart's history,"O'Brien charged, "dealing with Jefferson's administration. he said that the Federalists looked upon Jefferson as an atheist, a liar, and a demagogue" Professor Hart, in reply , stated that Jefferson's opponents did make such charges, and maintained that similar charges have been made in later days about Roosevelt and Wilson, the former of whom was his classmate at Harvard and a personal friend...