Word: christian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, in a big circus tent ("the largest revival tent in history") in downtown Los Angeles, Evangelist Graham seemed to be wielding the revival sickle as no one since Billy Sunday had wielded it. Sponsored and financed by businessmen, ministers and such groups as Christian Endeavor, Youth for Christ, and the Gideons, 31-year-old Billy Graham arrived in September to conduct a four-week revival...
...wise decision, we calls it," said the non-moralistic New York Daily News. "If U.S. citizenship were to be conferred only on alien married people and virgins of both sexes-well, we ask you." The Immigration Service sulked. It announced sturdily that it would continue to apply its "normal Christian standards." Snapped an official: "There is no use to subject the rest of the country, to the moral standards, if any, in New York...
After three weeks of floundering in crisis, Fance had a new government. The new Premier was Georges Bidault, 50, head of the Mouvement Républicain Populaire (the French branch of Europe's Christian democrats). At midnight, with his cabinet posts already assigned and the Radical and Socialist parties satisfied, Bidault went before the Assembly and won a cushiony vote of confidence, 367 to 183. Every non-Communist deputy except one voted for Bidault; yet there were many who, with deep misgivings about the prospects of his regime, voted for him because they could not stand the floundering...
...Burma could solve the problem of the rebellious Karens, the chances are that it would then be able to set the rest of its chaotic house in order. The Karens, who number about 2,000,000, are a predominantly Christian (Baptist), politically rightist minority who have been steadfastly insisting that they have a semi-autonomous state within the Union of Burma. The Karens' exorbitant territorial demands include most of lower Burma...
...took office in 1918. Oakes, a Republican moreover, has already lost the support of State GOP leaders. In 1948, Oakes was connected with the Plan 10 Committee that attempted to change Boston's charter. O'Brien, a progressive, was a Wallaccite in 1948, and was beaten, then, by Congressman Christian Horter. O'Brien has campaigned among the unemployed especially the longshoremen...