Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME, Oct. 3 is cruel and unjust, and in line with much news paper criticism of ministers these days "rejoicing in iniquity." I was a student in Union Theological Seminary in 1867-68. Quite a percent of the students were manly fellows who had been soldiers in the Civil War and they were rejoiced to hear Beecher and they noted in the great congregations a majority of men, yet you say Was "men there as a ever rule a did not manlier like thing him." than Beecher facing the English mobs and doing more for his country than any other...
Back to Babel. By far the most important topic of the convention was the withdrawal of the A. F. of L.'s Building Trades Department from the National Board of Jurisdictional Awards. The latter, now collapsed, was a board composed of civil engineers, architects, contractors and other employers, and of workers in the building trades, which was formed to settle disputes as to what workmen should do what sorts of work and how. Labor accused the other members of the Board of failing to carry out the Board's decisions. Secretary of Labor Davis deplored Labor...
...WHEREAS the Presbyterian Church, recognizing the civil status of marriage, does not presume to declare null any marriage which the state deems legal, yet insists that Christians in this, as in all other things, must be ruled by the higher law of Christ...
...American History since the Civil War", Professor Channing, Emerson...
...protracted formality. But it was of interest, outside the courtroom because this was the first time a superintendent of schools had ever been tried in Chicago. The charges were insubordination (refusing to replace teachers who worked in the executive offices and sometimes substituted in the classroom, with civil service clerks) and unpatriotism. Evidence adduced to prove the latter charge: "He refused to recommend to the School Board that the school children be permitted to donate small amounts of money for the purpose of reconditioning-the famous American battleship Old Ironsides. . . . He recommended history text books which contained pro-British propaganda...