Word: calif
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Election. To oppose the Fundamentalist candidate, Dr. Lapsley A. McAfee of Berkeley, Calif., the Moderates chose a man possessed of three extraordinarily varied qualifications: a compelling, genial personality; an indorsement (last year) from the late Fundamentalist William J. Bryan; and a high administrative record in a big position. He is Rev. Dr. William O. Thompson, bald Bismarckian lately retired president of Ohio State University. When Dr. Macartney tried to reconcile Dr. McAfee's alleged tolerance with Dr. McAfee's own declaration that "there is room in the church for all but the extreme Modernists," the Liberal nominator...
President. The man chiefly responsible for bringing about this quasi trust (it will endure for at least the next six months) was Dr. James Whitcomb Brougher, the retiring pastor of the Temple Baptist Church of Los Angeles, now pastor of the First Baptist Church of Oakland, Calif. All last year he traveled about the country presenting his address "Play Ball." Baptists of all shades of doctrine grew to admire him, came to call him "the Baptist unifier," even though they disagreed with his efforts to reconcile the parties. Last week he was elected President of the Northern Baptists...
...Conference's most notable act was to adopt a resolution stressing the fact that when a new Calif should be appointed he must be a free sovereign capable of defending Islam. Since the two other traditional qualifications for a Calif-descent from Mohammed and possession of the Holy Cities of Mecca and Medina-were not mentioned, it was inferred that these latter qualifications may be explicitly waived at a later date...
...further resolution significantly recorded the opinion that "a Calif can attain that office by conquest, providing always that he be a Moslem." More succinctly, Islam will rally to any Moslem who arises, smites the faithful and their enemies into submission, and proclaims himself Calif-the temporal and spiritual overlord of Islam...
...called "last true Calif," the deposed Sultan of Turkey, Mohammed VI, died recently in Italy (TIME...