Word: church
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long-standing promise to his daughters. They would see the sights and "take in some shows." He ruled out some ("They might not meet with the platform," said Warren with a laugh), decided on Finian's Rainbow. Sunday night, he and his family attended services at Calvary Baptist Church. This week, before returning to California, he would go to Pawling to discuss campaign plans...
...some countries, Catholics will be obliged to ask full religious freedom for all, resigned at being forced to cohabitate where they alone should rightfully be allowed to live. But in doing this the church does not renounce her thesis . . . but merely adapts herself . . . Hence arises the great scandal among Protestants . . . We ask Protestants to understand that the Catholic church would betray her trust if she were to proclaim . . . that error can have the same rights as truth . . . The church cannot blush for her own want of tolerance, as she asserts it in principle and applies it in practice...
...Only one student-Theophilus M. Roberts, a waiter at the Oklahoma Club-enrolled. Negro leaders in the segregation fight boycotted the school (so did Ada Sipuel) and turned the heat on Roberts. Last week, he quit without ever having cracked a book. Said he: "I've bucked the Church, the fraternal organizations and the man in the street. The pressure on me was more than I could take...
...Laski believes, the businessman is the trustee who can (and does) seat and unseat college presidents, purge faculties. He dominates radio; his stake in Hollywood virtually ensures movie mediocrity because he will not risk his enormous investment by risking "offense to any large source of profit." He supports the church, but often, says Laski, because his conception of religion is like that of the late Bishop Lawrence of Massachusetts, who said: "In the long run, it is only to the man of morality that wealth comes . . . Godliness is in league with riches." In social issues, the businessman automatically identifies "acquisition...
Golden Rule. In Chicago, Alma Linquest and husband Harold, a Bible student, finally patched things up in court after a month's separation: she agreed to attend church and he agreed to take her to a movie a week...