Word: belief
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radio sponsors, 29 of them bakers of bread, cake and biscuits, the Lone Ranger rides his imaginary mount, Silver, over a vast radio range of 129 stations, including one in Honolulu and one in Sydney, Australia. In real life he is Earl Crasser of Detroit. The popular belief is that Silver was named for Gordon Baking Co.'s Silvercup Bread, the Lone Ranger's leading sponsor from his start over five years...
...American Bar Association including William Howard Taft; raised a storm in Senate and press that echoed long after he took his seat on the bench. Mr. Taft later apologized to Mr. Brandeis for doing him a "grave injustice." But many of his contemporaries lived and died in the belief that Louis Brandeis, the "People's Lawyer" of Boston where he practiced for 37 years, the courtroom David against the industrial and financial Goliaths of the new century, a man whose whole conception of property was truly and dangerously radical, was no fit Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court...
What apparently hurt Italy's feelings most, however, was the sale of U.S. planes to France. Popolo di Roma denounced the "scandalous supply of planes to France" and expressed belief that this was a violation of the U. S. Constitution, which it is not. Warning France not to believe that U. S. help would be forthcoming in a war, Popolo d'ltalia said: "This is one of the most colossal delusions into which France has ever fallen. Because, if despite the efforts of the totalitarian states to insure a just peace, war should break out, before...
...contributions to the cause, they have nevertheless deplored the fact that the Mahatma's closest advisers have long been a group of rich Hindu moneylenders and merchants, that the Saint is not even faintly inclined to socialist principles. They also take no stock in Mahatma Gandhi's belief that machines are wicked, that earthquakes are demonstrations of God's wrath and that the primitive Indian village life is the ideal way of living. And more significantly, they have lately come to believe that the Mahatma was far too prone to compromise with the British...
Contrary to general belief, Presbyterians and Episcopalians hold the same beliefs about ordination and the apostolic succession of the ministry (from the original Apostles). Presbyterians simply believe that their ministers are the same as bishops, since they are ordained by presbyteries acting in an episcopal capacity. Not all Episcopalians, however, believe that the Presbyterians' apostolic succession is valid-just as Roman Catholics deny the Episcopal validity. At present, a Presbyterian minister wishing to enter the Episcopal priesthood must be reordained. And last week many a Presbyterian suspected that the proposed "commissioning" service, which would involve the laying...