Word: calvinism
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...public school buses that carry white children to nearby communities. By last week the daily scrimmage had aroused one of Georgia's worst racial flare-ups in years. The Ku Klux Klan announced its own drive to "increase tension" in Crawfordville, and for good measure Georgia Klan Dragon Calvin Craig got himself arrested on assault and battery charges for roughing up a Crawfordville Negro demonstrator. Hosea Williams, a Southern Negro leader directing the Crawfordville campaign, vowed that he would "call out every Negro child in every damned school in the state" in sympathy boycotts. Martin Luther King threatened...
...that Hubert is Vice President, the Humphreys may have to say goodbye to Coquelin Terrace. Because there is no official residence for the nation's No. 2 executive, Hubert is encountering many of the problems that plagued his predecessors, some of whom also lived very simply. Calvin Coolidge and Cactus Jack Garner, for example, lived in hotels, and Harry Truman occupied a $150-a-month apartment. Some people did not think these arrangements very seemly, and there was always some agitation for the Vice Presidents to move...
...came to believe that care of the poor is not the duty of just the rich or the church but also of the state. "Paupers are everywhere!" she cried after a tour of England, and her Parliament sped up passage of its poor-relief acts. Just about then, Calvin declared that idleness was the real sin-which in the U.S. developed into the Puritan ethic that virtuous people are bound to prosper and the slothful will earn the bitter reward of poverty. Less than a century ago, Henry Ward Beecher thundered: "No man in this land suffers from poverty unless...
...political games can be so much more exciting. The Twin Cities, on the other hand, were starved for baseball. The Twins set the 1963 American League attendance record and today average 16,000 per game, the highest in the league. Encouraged by this box office bustle, Twins President Calvin Griffith has spent $6,000,000 for 65 new players, 18 of whom have found a place on the Twins alongside seven stars from Washington days...
Philosophers and theologians have always debated the morality of debt. Aristotle condemned the charging of interest as "most unnatural," the early Christians considered it sinful, and the Schoolmen of the Middle Ages equated it with usury-until the Reformation, and notably John Calvin, defended interest under certain conditions. The last of the Schoolmen really was Karl Marx, who preached that interest meant exploitation. Only lately have some of the Communist governments in Eastern Europe begun to move away from this paralyzing doctrine...