Word: churches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...taxes for our public schools and then support at the same time parochial schools indicates how Catholic parents feel; they make sacrifices to maintain both. The public schools for those who want them; the parochial schools ditto. Plumber Sanders brazenly declares, "I am a member of the Catholic Church and in years gone by !" He's probably the kind of member that comes for his own funeral when he can't kick any longer. I have one parishioner (?) who has not darkened the door of our church for 40 years. A zealous Mason tried to capture...
Meanwhile his strength as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints waxed great. In 1900 he was appointed to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles which made him a sort of Mormon cardinal. Today by the rule of seniority only two men stand between him and the Presidency of the Mormon Church? President Heber J. Grant and Chief Apostle Rudger Clawson. Someday Apostle Smoot may head his church and converse privately with...
...Mormon Church is a business as well as a religion. Reed Smoot busied himself with its finances, pulled them out of a rut, made its beet sugar and woolen enterprises return good profits. His industry, in 1903, was rewarded with an election to the U. S. Senate...
...angles, mostly in closeup. Director Carl Theodore Dreyer, a Dane, is not concerned with history, except that he uses accurately and intelligently such evidence as the 15th Century has left him about the girl who saved her country from its enemies, and was later tortured to death by the Church. Somehow Dreyer found a woman, Mile. Falconetti, whose face was what he looked for, and whose talent directed as well as fulfilled his own "directing...
...King-Emperor approved the appointment of his second son, Prince Albert, Duke of York, to be Lord High Commissioner of the Church of Scotland, an office bestowed in 1924 by the then Labor Prime Minister, James Ramsay MacDonald, on one James Brown, a prac-ticing coal miner...