Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Office Seekers. Besides those whom politicians and Prohibitionists sought to have appointed as officers of the new regime, there were hundreds of other applicants including clergymen and women, and one college boy who wanted a Prohibition job in the day time so that he could go to night school. The number of applicants was estimated by one source at 5,000. Of these applications, some effort had to be made to separate the goats from the sheep...
...then advanced to the power plant, well-nigh destroyed it. Police forces of the neighboring towns arrived, but could do nothing. Many policemen were caught, locked up in the local prison. Their lives were spared only by the supplications of three clergymen. Mob rule set in. Stores were plundered. Thousands of dollars of damage was done...
...incident had no immediate consequences for the reason that Brighton is not in the diocese of Birmingham; but on the following day appeared a report of an unofficial "National Council of Public Morals," strongly condemning birth control. It was signed by the Bishop of Winchester and two other clergymen. It advocated five-chil- dren families and concluded: "We deplore as strongly as possible the tendency-in some cases a mere fashion, in others a necessity more imaginary than real, in others again a, selfishness more or less plausibly concealed- to look on one or two or even three children...
Twenty-five thousand U. S. clergymen from every Protestant denomination voted; by their votes they decided who among them are the 25 most influential preachers...
...article "Peter Sat by the Fire Warming Himself" in the Atlantic Monthly, February, 1918, mercilessly excoriated U. S. clergymen for their supine neutrality during...