Word: christian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radio news commentators without a newspaper background. Twenty-eight-year-old son of Missouri Pacific Railroad's chief tariff inspector, he was born in St. Louis, operated an amateur radio station as a boy, worked as announcer at various Midwestern stations after leaving Christian Brothers College and studying law. He reads aloud at home to improve his enunciation, has been broadcasting WLW's news reports, written from wire service releases by the station's newsroom, since last year...
...Hearstpapers last week engaged Edward to his second cousin, thin-lipped Princess Alexandrine-Louise, 21, niece of Denmark's King Christian X. Said Alexandrine's father: "Pure nonsense...
Such facts were reported in Manhattan last week to the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies. They were based on a survey of 1,000 Congregational & Christian Churches made by a Commission on Church Attendance headed by that famed and pious statistician, Roger Ward Babson. Bullish on U. S. domestic economy, Statistician Babson is decidedly bearish on the state of U. S. religion...
Besides pigeons, the church bodies in charge of the two-year Emergency Peace Campaign (TIME, March 16) had a prime ally in 77-year-old George Lansbury. This Christian Socialist is a devout Anglican who lately remarked: "I get tired of being told what a nice, good fool I am." Nice, good "Old George" fought against conditions in British workhouses, fought for women's suffrage, twice went to jail, attempted, as Laborite Commissioner of Works (1929-31), to realize his dream of a happy, beautified London. A single-minded and uncompromising pacifist, Lansbury yielded what crumbs remained...
...which began three years ago when he could scarcely talk sense. Having preached in 70 cities in 13 states, small Charles Jaynes Jr. will go to Detroit for a well-earned rest and some education. Called by his parents no prodigy but "the result of proper training in a Christian home," the child has heretofore been too busy for schooling, will get a tutor next autumn...