Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Beneath the windows of the President's schoolroom office in Rapid City, 250 members of the South Dakota Women's Christian Temperance Union prayed for Calvin Coolidge's continuance in office, for the upholding of the Constitution...
Another quirky apostrophe to the current culture appeared in last week's Christian Century. It read: "Anti-Semitic Fishermen Please Take Notice-A somewhat unusual episode in the campaign for better relations between Jews and Gentiles is the renaming of the 'Jew fish,' which hereafter is to be called the 'June fish,' at least in the New York aquarium. Jews protested that a fish 'so ugly and so named was an insult to their race...
Last week, Manhattan Jews gazed resentfully at the groupers in the New York aquarium, and at the placard on the grouper tank. The Christian Century good news had not yet come true. The placard still reads "JEWFISH (Grouper...
These defeats became virtually a rout last week and at the psychological moment General Chiang's nominal ally, the eccentric "Christian" War Lord Feng Yu-hsiang suddenly ordered him by telegraph to resign...
Significance. Chiang Kai-shek's withdrawal reduced to insignificance the offshoot Nationalist regime at Nanking which Chiang had headed* placing the parent nationalist regime at Hankow once more in com plete mastery of nationalist affairs. Nominally the "Christian" War Lord Feng Yu-hsiang intervened in the interest of Hankow; but his reputation for treachery is such that Chinese thought that he would soon attempt to seize the whole Nationalist territory himself...