Word: christian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy an envoy who flung his dynamic energies without reserve into the job of getting them home as fast as possible. During the panic period Mr. Kennedy was not perhaps quite as close to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain as U. S. Ambassador to France William Christian Bullitt was to Premier Edouard Daladier, but he unquestionably saw the crisis from the inside. Last week he spoke his mind at the annual Trafalgar Day Dinner of Britain's Navy League while other U. S. crisis-insiders continued to keep mum about Munich...
...have filtered into Jerusalem, some entering secretly through underground passages, others in disguise through the Old City's gates. By increasingly violent terrorism they had made life so dangerous for individual officers of the law that the British withdrew from most of the Old City to the largely Christian and Jewish city beyond the walls, there to await reinforcements...
...Milwaukee, undefeated Texas Christian, led by amazing young Davey O'Brien, muddled Marquette with the most spectacular air maneuvers of the week. Quarterback O'Brien completed seven passes in a row that paved the way for two touchdowns before retiring to the sidelines at the end of the first quarter. Returning in the last quarter, he threw another pass that scored a third touchdown. He kicked three extra points. Score: Texas Christian 21, Marquette...
...Holy Bible is a library in itself. Its 66 volumes contain 1,189 chapters, 31,173 verses, 773,692 words. Published last week was A Digest of-the Bible* in 284 pages, whose author, Peter V. Ross, California lawyer and Christian Science lecturer, said: "If you can read 50 interesting pages in the course of an evening, you can, during the evenings of one busy week, read the Bible-here shaped to swiftly moving narrative...
...Europe it was once common to convert whole peoples, by main force, from one Christian faith to another, on the historic principle of Cuius regio, eius religio ("whose rule, his religion"). Long in disuse, this principle was last week once again being honored in eastern Europe. The rule was Poland's, the religion, Roman Catholicism. Or so it was loudly and plausibly charged by those who were undergoing the "conversion"-7,000,000 Ukrainians in southeastern Poland...