Word: beliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...players of the nation's native rhythms, states a widely accepted point of view on swing music's development. The March of Time, whose February issue contained a salute to the Original Dixieland Jazz Band as the organization whence swing music sprang full-born, was stating a belief also widely held by jazz reactionaries, academicians and purists. Most of "Red" Nichols' recordings during his great period in 1922-28 (Ida, Back Beats, Alice Blue Gown) are available on re-issued Brunswick records...
...that a "subcommittee had to be appointed to deal with it."The chief U. S. church which treats human ailments by prayer is the Church of Christ, Scientist." You further quote Dr. George C. Ruhland, District Health Officer, as saying, "I have the highest regard for religion, but religious belief does not prevent blindness." May I take issue with Dr. Ruhland on this point, for thousands of individuals have been healed of blindness and many cases where from a medical standpoint total blindness was considered inevitable, Christian Science has restored perfect sight. I present for your consideration the following statement...
...under observation in Bellevue Hospital because he sent Postmaster General Farley certain obscene confessions as to the good Father Divine had done him. According to Miss Jewett, a schoolgirlish young lady whose story the Journal frontpaged daily last week, Hunt-"St. John the Revelator" in Divinese-converted her to belief in the Harlem godhead, presently seduced...
...college a collection to be known as the Museum of Living Art. Few museums are more autocratically administered. All the pictures are chosen and paid for by Donor Gallatin. They are hung in the main study halls of N. Y. U.'s Washington Square branch, because of his belief that pictures should be lived with, not visited on pilgrimage...
...despite his genuine sympathy with the cause of teaching, Governor Hurley has fallen victim to the benighted belief that the clammy hand of authority can root out radical thinking. No authority under the sun possess the power to root out any thinking, whether it be radical or reactionary. Authorities in the Middle Ages tried to root out heresy, only to see it spread like wildfire. The sole force that can root out erroneous thinking is the ultra-violet ray of truth. For "the vicious minorities whose motives are inimical to. . . the principles on which the Republic was founded" will never...