Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...message from Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., contained this paragraph: "As a member of the National Board of the Young Women's Christian Association, the welfare of the girlhood of this country is very near to my heart, and as the mother of six children, confronted as they are with the present laxity, I am impelled to join with those who are working to make these United States a proper place for the protection as well as the development of our young men and women...
Representatives of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, Federation of Women's Foreign Mission Societies, Congress of Mothers and Parent-Teacher Associations, National Council of Women, National League of Women Voters, Daughters of the American Revolution, Women's Christian Temperance Association, and the Young Women's Christian Association, arose, one after the other, and pledged their 10,000,000 membership to the movement...
...returned to the town in Ohio to bury her mother. The mother had died as bitter protest against the smoke and soot which factories shot upon her gardened mansion. Out of the factories had come human wretchedness. Into the wretchedness had gone Irene, sister of virtue, to find in Christian charity what Pagan love had denied her. To her goodness a giant had been drawn, a socialist Galahad. But when he had run from the bullets of the strikebreakers into the gardened mansion at dead of night, he had found, not Irene the good, but Lily the beautiful. At dawn...
...stormy three-hours discussion at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Manhattan, James W. Gerard, former U. S. Ambassador to Germany, attacked the Treaty, contending that "Christian civilization was crucified at Lausanne and the Stars and Stripes were trailed in the mire in the interest of a group of oil speculators." He characterized the Turks as murderers and the Kemalist Government as a group of adventurers whose régime was on its last legs. His position received needed dignity from the support of Professor A. D. F. Hamlin of Columbia University and Prof. Albert Bushnell Hart of Harvard, who wrote...
Amid a crowd of 10,000 Chinese, gathered to watch the parades and incense-burning, Mr. Six produced the inevitable occidental camera and started to take snapshots. The devotees of Mercy mobbed the amateur photographer and beat him senseless. Chinese Christian converts from a neighboring missionary school rescued Mr. Six by kidnapping the leaders of the mob and threatening them with death if the antiforeign rioting did not cease...