Word: christs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frank Murphy's sister says that he "looks more like Jesus Christ every day." Before the committee he looked like a man who, his mind on highest things, has suffered and forgiven much. He told how, having been asked by Flint authorities to back up the court order, "I did not ignore that writ. ... On the contrary, I warned the union representatives that I would enforce it." He merely delayed enforcement over the week-end (the writ was issued on a Friday) because he believed a negotiated settlement was imminent. National Guardsmen stood by, and sure enough a settlement...
...England last month the Merseyside Left Theatre Club produced Clifford Odets' Waiting for Lefty. From the play the Lord Chamberlain (official censor) had struck out-as profane-the line: "They'll tear Christ from his bleeding cross." When the Merseysiders used the line anyhow, an uproar followed. The manager banged down the curtain. Ten of the club's actors and officials were ordered arrested...
...anyone is interested in the ministry--either from a professional or a non-professional point of view, let him write to me at Christ Church in Cambridge, and I will be glad to give him the details. Rev. Frederic B. Kellogg...
...achieved. The very timbre of his voice had a tonic quality. It was like a light dry wine." Leading Friends: Pastor Christian Ficthorne Reisner of Manhattan's Broadway Tabernacle ("I get in the papers all I can, but it is not personal publicity I seek-I want my Christ played up"); Mizra Ahmad Sohrab, direct descendant of Mohammed and leader of U. S. Bahaism ("There is no saint without a past; there is no sinner without a future"); Editor Josette Lacoste of the U. S. French-language weekly, Amérique ("Only with a baby in arms...
...Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America last month admitted the Syrian Antiochian Orthodox Church (100,000 members) to its ranks. Last fortnight the Federal Council, which used to describe itself as a "Protestant agency," began looking for something better to call itself than a "U. S. non-Roman Catholic Christian agency...