Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chinese workers, egged on by the Nationalists, who announced that the factory will henceforth be run on Communist lines; 2) announcement by the Provost of Johns Hopkins University, Charles K. Edmunds, to Shanghai reporters that during a recent visit to Canton he formally relinquished control of the historic Canton Christian College to the Nationalists. "I personally welcome the transfer," said Mr. Edmunds. "The Chinese attitude is wholesome, and the Nationalist movement, at any rate in Canton, [where it originated] is promising"; 3) announcement at New Haven, Conn., by the trustees of Yale-In-China that Dr. Edward H. Hume, President...
...Preacher counsels: Be not over muck wicked . . . why shouldst thou die before thy time? Question: Is this not an un-Christian reason for abjuring wickedness...
...juries. They are all Michiganders, all know that Mr. Ford makes automobiles-but none of them had ever heard of Mr. Sapiro before the suit. Their religious complexion is: four Roman Catholics, two Presbyterians, one Baptist, one Congregationalist, one. German Lutheran, one Universalist, one with "leanings to Christian Science," one (Mrs. Anna Brown) not asked concerning her religion. A couple of Jews (one Orthodox, one Reformed) and a man who had once joined the Ku Klux Klan out of curiosity were ousted after the original drawings...
Last week in the prisoner's box of a crowded Toronto courtroom, Ernest V. Sterry squinted through thick glasses at a jury of his peers, stood trial for blasphemy against the Lord God of Christians. In the Christian Enquirer he had written of the God of the Bible as "this irate old party . . . this touchy Jehovah . . . who preferred the savory smell of roast cutlets to the odors of boiled cabbage,* who sat in a burning bush or popped out from behind the rocks" (TIME, Jan. 24). Edward J. Murphy, devout Roman Catholic, prosecuted for the Crown with vigor, called...
...admission of Eskimo Pie Corp. securities to trading on the New York Curb Market last week marked another incident in the life of a Scandinavian immigrant. The trivial business that Christian K. Nelson and Russell Stover began at Omaha, Neb., half a dozen years ago was now a $25,000,000 corporation...