Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...testified: "At that time I had to deal with powerful forces for disorder and I though it was well to oppose them with forces of order. I had to meet action by some 400,000 or 500,000 Communists, and I thought the Croix de Feu was an interesting attempt to link the War generation with the generations of the future. I got very good service from the Croix de Feu. They kept order when and where I asked...
...been destroyed. The Orthodox bishops, priests and delegates of Orthodox believers from the vicinity of Tver, Yaroslavl and Ivanovo-Voznesensk dared and succeeded in holding without molestation from the Secret Police an assembly to decide the electoral policies of the Church. It became a question whether religious groups should attempt to nominate for election to the Supreme Soviet priests, bishops, or even His Holiness the Metropolitan Sergius who today still celebrates Orthodox rites with all pomp in one of the Moscow churches which have not been closed. Soviet reporters, while handling such news with mittens, have made clear in Pravda...
Paradoxically the Vishinsky ruling did not seem last week to cramp the electioneering style of the Russian clergy. It appeared from stories in the Soviet press that nearly all the registered religious groups have been smart enough not to attempt to nominate a priest or bishop but are working to advance the interests of persons, some even Communists, who for one reason or another are known to have a lenient attitude toward the Church. While none of Stalin's policies is ever criticized by Pravda or Izvestia, their unavoidable coverage of basic news had made it clear last week...
...Eastern, Roman and Anglican, by most Protestant Anglicans and Nonconformists, namely, the personal love of Jesus, the supreme importance of the domestic virtues, the concentration of the individual on the building up of his own soul and the permanence of the individual soul beyond the grave." In an attempt to dispose of pietism, Noel interprets Christianity as a social religion looking toward a "New World Order," although he admits that this interpretation is acceptable only to a minority of Christians: "The Roman Catholic hierarchy in Italy and Spain is openly allied with Fascism; the churches of the East are pietistic...
...class as a whole. For with this cleavage of interest-the instructors are placed in a quandary and must either favor those taking the course to develop their technique and slight those concerned with the original work, or, if they do not favor one group or the other, the attempt to fill the needs of both generally ends by satisfying neither...