Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...place as honorary head of a Business Men's Committee of the Foundation for the Free Distribution of the American Standard Bible. Other members of the Committee include Woodrow Wilson arid William Howard Taft. Said the President: "It is a pleasure to become associated with this fine Christian work...
...President nominated George B. Christian, Jr., Secretary to President Harding, for a post on the Federal Trade Board. Opposition to the appointment came from Senator Couzens, Republican, of Michigan, and Senator King, Democrat, of Utah. They declared that the former Secretary to the President was not qualified...
...Holy Father expressed the wish that "the greatest advantage should be gained by those Catholics who by the publication of newspapers and other writings illustrate, promote and defend Christian doctrine." He counsels that "they should confute errors and resist the wiles of perverse people, but in a way showing they are inspired by rectitude and especially by charity." To the work of extending the usefulness of the Catholic press, a saint, has been given. He is St. Francis of Sales. In a recent encyclical, the Pope presented him as the Patron Saint of the Catholic Press. He was Bishop...
Died. Mrs. Feng Yu-Hsiang, wife of Major General Feng Yu-Hsiang, Chinese General; at Peking. The 30,000 soldiers encamped outside of Peking were said to be wearing mourning bands on their uniforms. An American officer reported (TIME, May 19) that General Yu-Hsiang's army sang Christian hymn-tunes, but that the words "meant something different...
...Texas Christian University, Mrs. Mary Couts Burnett, of Fort Worth, has donated $1,000,000 of Government and other gilt-edge securities and an interest in oil wells which should amount to at least...