Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This difficult position has been the property of George B. Christian, Jr., of Marion, for the last two years. Mr. Christian announced that he would resign, saying: " I entered public life with Warren G. Harding and I leave it now that he has been called away...
...Soviet Government proposed to recall M. Leonid Krassin, Soviet Trade Commissioner in London, and replace him with M. Christian Rakovski, one time associate of Foreign Minister Georges Tchicherin. The change was to all intents and purposes completed (TIME, Aug. 13), when Lord Curzon demanded that M. Rakovski's departure from Moscow should be delayed pending investigations into some of his anglophobe utterances...
...Money Crusade. In the Middle Ages knights in armor went on crusades to recover to Christianity the holy places in Jerusalem. Today the British, having at last put Jerusalem under Christian oversight, are appealing to all Christians to be knights of the open purse, and give liberally toward the preservation of the holy places for which the older crusaders fought. The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem has, since the year 328 A. D., kept intact many of the sacred buildings and sites of Palestine. Most of the income of this little patriarchate came from Russia. This support is now almost...
...TIME, July 16, appeared a notice about four great conferences held in various parts of the country. The unprecedented attendance at the Christian Workers' Conference, which opened in East Northfield, Mass., last week, draws attention to the fountainhead of the conference movement in the U. S. This annual conference was started by Dwight L. Moody. It has grown quietly from year to year, until this year over 100 are on the waiting list for accommodations, and the thousand-odd who make up the delegations that pack the auditorium come from the ends of the earth. The Rev. John Hutton...
...cost, and provide their students with means of working on the school farms or in their dormitories. Not content to let the school plants lie idle through the Summer, Mr. Moody started the conferences for college students, who meet there in June and July, and for ministers and other Christian workers, who are now holding sessions which are full to overflowing...