Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...51st Convention of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union assembled in Detroit with great enthusiasm. Miss Anna Gordon,* who for ten years has presided over its destinies, but wishes now to retire to her work as W. C. T. U. World President, opened the meeting...
...Peter Ainslie, head of the Christian Temple in Baltimore, received a letter inviting him to become a trustee of the Bryan Memorial University, to be erected by an association of the same name at Dayton, Tenn., scene of the Commoner's last struggle. He replied refusing the nomination...
...still more sweeping innovation is the recent transference of the Turkish day of rest to coincide with the Christian Sunday. Previously it came on Friday, and was supposed to be the day on which the first man was born, the day on which he entered paradise, the day of his expulsion, his repentance, his death, and of mankind's future resurrection. Since the Turks have been abstaining from labor on Friday, the Jews on Saturday and the Christians on Sunday, employers in Turkey have long been resigned to only a four-day full-labor week. It is expected that...
General Feng, "Chinese Christian Soldier," was also widely discussed last week, in view of the widespread uncertainty as to whether he would continue in a "benevolent" attitude toward the Customs Conference. Feng, like many a western statesmen, has been alternately reviled for "treachery to his friends" and praised for "his devotion to the interests of the mass...
Among his foibles have been noted "a taste for ice cream, and a reluctance to employ the death penalty except in extreme cases." Said an observer: "Feng is a 'Christian,' yes; but of a special kind. Like Cromwell he teaches his men to pray well and shoot better...