Word: christe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Townsend, inquired New York's Gavagan, like Townsend Plan literature which referred to him as "Christ reincarnate...
...plump, masterful Mother Superior. Accompanied by adroitly "dubbed" dialog, church music and a commentary by a U. S. priest named Rev. Matthew Kelly, the picture presents no conflict, reaches no climax, accepts without demur the phenomenon of women adopting a medieval mode of life to become mystical brides of Christ. Much of Cloistered was filmed in a churchly murk illumined with twinkling candles and rare shafts of sunlight. Arresting shots: nuns wielding pickaxes, laying bricks, pecking typewriters, operating a printing press; penitents sewing under the watchful eyes of Magdalens; a single nun prostrating herself face down; nuns swirling...
...years ago of Rhode Island, the anniversary of which Baptists are currently celebrating in the conviction that this pioneer in religious freedom was their spiritual ancestor. Northern Baptists. During the widespread U. S. religious ferment of a century ago, the Church of Disciples of Christ (Campbellites) was formed by a onetime Baptist named Alexander Campbell, who rejected most Baptist tenets except baptism by immersion. Last week another Campbell - Rev. George A. of St. Louis' Union Avenue Christian Church - appeared before the Northern Baptist Convention with a plea for merger on the ground that theological differences between the two churches...
...Author of a onetime best-seller on Jesus Christ (The Man Nobody Knows), Adman Bruce Barton was asked fortnight ago to see if he could sell the G. 0. P. to the U. S. public. Though Adman Barton has not definitely accepted the National Republican Committee's invitation, he got in some practice last week at a Chicago meeting of the Illinois Manufacturers' Association. Suggesting that businessmen get busy in the politicians' own backyard, he took off his hat, as one master salesman to another, to Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...three-day session, about four times as many as last year. Indeed, the conference had to be transferred from the Dearborn Inn to the Book-Cadillac Hotel in Detroit. Next to Henry Ford, the most distinguished guest was Heber J. Grant, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. "I am here to learn," said that venerable Mormon leader...