Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this time, matching them meeting for meeting, was 44-year-old Christian Democrat Deputy Paolo Bonomi and his national federation of dirt farmers. Italy's farmers, like most farmers everywhere, are conservative. But not even the Communists were prepared for the landslide that buried their candidates. With the count nearly complete, the Reds had won only 142 out of 7,649 communes. Even in the Red strongholds of Tuscany and Emilia, the Communists took only 18 out of 603 posts. The anti-Communists got a surprising 98% of the vote...
Massachusetts' House of Representatives yesterday upheld the veto by Governor Christian A. Herter '15 of a bill to make a person under 21 liable to a ten to one hundred dollar fine for buying liquor...
...abortions. Unwed Heroines. Admittedly, it is a Christian virtue to show kindness and tolerance to unwed mothers, but in Sweden they are practically heroines. Not long ago an unwed mother became a candidate for the Lucia Crown, an annual beauty award based on the legend of St. Lucia, who had her eyes gouged out for defending her chastity against a Roman centurion. When the judges questioned her qualifications and refused to let her compete, the young mother received bales of encouraging letters and the judges were roundly blasted. The sex education given in public schools would make even the most...
...great problems of [Christian] missions toward the Jews today," writes Protestant Theologian Paul Tillich in Christianity & Crisis, "is that we often have the feeling that it is by historical providence that the Jews have an everlasting function in history . . . [This function] would be to criticize, in the power of the prophetic spirit, those tendencies in Christianity which drive toward paganism and idolatry. Judaism always stood against them as a witness and as a critic, and perhaps it is the meaning of historical providence that this shall remain so, as long as there is history. Individual Jews will always come...
...Governor Christian A. Herter yesterday vetoed the bill which would have made it criminal for a minor to purchase any alcoholic beverage for his own consumption. The bill would have provided fines...