Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Provisions of a presidential decree promulgated to take effect on July 31: 1) Church property to be confiscated. 2) No foreign-born clergymen may officiate in Mexico. 3) No religious corporation may conduct an educational institution. 4) Monasteries and nunneries are dissolved. 5) No religious publication may publish any account of or comment on national political affairs. 6) There can be no religious instruction in schools. 7) Religious ministers shall not be able to associate themselves for political purposes. 8) All religious acts of public worship shall be celebrated absolutely inside of churches which shall always be under the vigilance...
...extremes to which police power may go. With no real provocation to offer as reason, the right of free speech and free assembly, guaranteed in both the constitutions of the nation and of New Jersey, has been denied not only to strikers, but to reputable lawyers and pacific clergymen. That such a situation can exist, even under protest, would rather suggest there are, still extant, reasons for wondering at the reflection of function to which democratic government has attained...
They did so. The deportations were halted overnight. Chastened Mexican police liberated such clergymen as they had locked up prior to deportation. Assurances were given that the religious clauses of the decidedly "advanced" Mexican Constitution will not be enforced, at least for the present...
...famous interstate contest where young Robinson will compete has ranked many famous men among its winners. From its beginning in 1874 to 1902, it has had one-third of its winners listed in Who's Who in America-including one author, one governor, one bishop and two clergymen, two U. S. Senators, two U. S. Representatives, three lawyers, eight educators, including five college presidents. Wabash has won the Indiana contest five times in the past seven years, the national event three times since 1919. As he twitched and flashed about the Wabash gymnasium last week, Wabash asked itself...
...Holmes is a freethinker whose views on most subjects connected with the trend of modern thought differ widely from the generally accepted opinions of American clergymen. His subject in Friday's lecture will be "Mahatma Ghandi...