Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only that she had served ten years and that was enough. ¶ Balancing the discovery of Secretary of Commerce Lament's connection with the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, it was disclosed that Secretary of Agriculture Arthur M. Hyde was an honorary member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. ¶ An appropriation of $50,000 made by the last Congress for "prohibition educational" purposes is to be spent on posters, leaflets and cartoons to persuade the public in favor of law enforcement. Dry organizations were invited to help choose the poster designs. ¶ The first few days...
Consolidation. Dry organizations therefore marched forward to take up front-rank positions about the White House, close to Mr. Hoover's blue serge shoulder. Last week in Philadelphia the executive committee of the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education, after sending an emissary to Washington, joined its Department of Moral Welfare with 30 other temperance organizations "for a unified plan for observance of the 18th Amendment, in accordance with the wishes of the administration of President Hoover." The Anti-Saloon League was included in this Presbyterian announcement and the Presbyterians made it sound as though the political stigma that...
...wife of a Christian Scientist, Mrs. George Bernard Shaw hesitated for just one day, last week, when her 72-year-old husband caught influenza, and then, despite his protests, called a physician...
...however, has a missionary-like ambition "to increase human felicity, virtue and intelligence, and to achieve universal peace and happiness." Tai Hsu believes Buddhism can achieve these things. In U.S. colleges and universities, therefore, he will explain his doctrines. But unlike most Christian missionaries, he will seek to convert no unbelievers. He intends merely to offer his beliefs for intelligent examination, letting those accept who wish...
...course, a man may lead a Christian life without going to church or conforming to the dogmas of any one religious sect. It is possible for a man to get an education without going to college. But why do it: Why not receive the instruction and direction the college is able to give. In the same way, the church is or should be our religious alma mater...