Word: basketing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lutheranism in the U. S. has no more unity than a basket of eggs. To give it the unity of an omelet has long been the dream of many a Lutheran-a dream partly realized in 1918, when several Lutheran bodies were merged into the United Lutheran Church, largest (1,599,102 baptized members) in the land. Last week United Lutherans held their 11th biennial conference in Baltimore. As always, they elected bald, goateed, precise Dr. Frederick Hermann Knubel of Manhattan to be their president. As always, Dr. Knubel, now 68, accepted...
...with other Lutherans than in agreeing with them." He urged them to "discern our three-fold responsibility today, for our inner unity, for unity with all Lutherans and for unity with all Christians." But unity, he declared, should be on a basis of "extremely studious discrimination." In the Lutheran basket, the chief egg upon which the United Lutheran Church looks with favor is the American Lutheran Church (some 500,000 members...
...watch, long-armed Republican Governor Lewis O. Barrows of Maine peeled off his coat to engage short-armed Democratic Governor Barzilla W. Clark of Idaho in a five-minute contest at picking potatoes-a prime product of both their States. Governor Clark pitched his spuds forward into his basket; Governor Barrows scrabbled backwards into a basket between his long, straddled legs (see cut). The winner: Maine's Barrows, 201 lbs. to 197 lbs. He apologized :"I probably had a four-pound rock in there." Idaho's Clark explained: "Your potatoes are smaller and more slippery than ours...
Originally called pelota (ball) and played with the bare hand against church walls in the Basque country three centuries ago, the game gradually evolved until three concrete walls were used instead of one, and a cesta (wicker basket shaped like a pelican's lower bill) was strapped onto the wrist to protect the hand from the sting of the fast-moving little pelota (hard as a golf ball and a little smaller than a baseball). Cubans imported the sport in 1900, called it jai alai for no other reason than that it was played at an arena in Havana...
Last week, while a U. S. Circuit court was giving NLRB another one in the bread basket (see above), the Second Appellate Court of Illinois upheld the convictions for contempt, clearly informed Illinois employers that State and local law still protected them from illegally conducted sit-downs. Said the Court: "There is nothing in the Wagner Act which deals with the subject of violence or any illegal acts committed by employes in the course of an industrial dispute, and in our opinion Congress did not by this enactment deprive or attempt to deprive the States of their police power...