Word: christianly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conference was convoked by the Universal Christian Council for Life & Work, a co-operative committee established at the Stockholm Conference to further Christian unity which has been functioning quietly in Geneva ever since. Of its four sections, English, Eastern, European and American, by all odds the biggest and most active in calling the Conference was the last, headed by vigorous, 71-year-old Professor Emeritus William Adams Brown of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, who is also the Council's active president...
...Littlefield troupe had gone abroad early in the summer, expecting to be the first U. S. troupe to do so (TIME, Feb. 22). Everywhere they went they were a sensation. In Paris they danced eleven times in a week. President Lebrun attended opening night. U. S. Ambassador William Christian Bullitt, himself a Philadelphian, kissed Catherine Littlefield on both cheeks when the performance was over. When the Littlefield troupe danced in Brussels, King Leopold broke mourning for the first time to see them. Richard Henry Gillespie of the London Hippodrome hired the troupe for two weeks, had to extend their...
...hungry brain of his child. The poor little traveler is bewildered by the strange world in which he suddenly finds himself. . . . For absolute filth, go and listen to the talks of the boys and girls during recess in our schools. Some of these little ones belong to refined Christian families. Their parents would shrink in horror at the thought of unveiling the sacred mysteries of sex and birth to their innocent minds...
...Died. Christian P. ("Barney") Bertsche, 74, onetime Chicago saloonkeeper and pre-Prohibition gangster; in Rochester, Minn., where doctors at the Mayo Clinic took him for a retired business...
...Moderator of the National Council of Christian & Congregational Churches, spry, bearded old Statistician Roger Ward Babson, two months ago received a troubled letter from Rev. Theodore C. Hume of Chicago and 14 other Congregational ministers. Mr. Hume and his colleagues wanted to know if Mr. Babson had told his businessmen subscribers, in a special letter of his Babson's Reports, that U. S. churches have accumulated "useless customs and cobwebs"? Had he further remarked that the German Government in emphasizing a creed based on "four simple but vital foundations" (Faith, Blood, Sacrifice, Love) "may be taking a forward step...