Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This is my funeral," came a voice from a recording made four years before. "I am an atheist and have been for many years. I have the utmost contempt for theological nonsense. Clergymen are moral cowards. Miracles are a product of the imagination. If any four reporters were sent to an execution and got their facts as twisted as the apostles in the Bible report, they would be fired forthwith. I want no religious songs. This is going to be a perfectly rational funeral...
...Abbots' party, including two Japanese bishops and two clergymen, will inspect Harvard's department of Far Eastern Languages today and will be entertained at lunch at the Harvard Faculty Club by Professor Serge Elisseff, head of the department...
Also among those jailed were 40 more Roman Catholic priests (estimated total of nuns and priests already jailed: 300); they had opposed two bills, steamrollered through Parliament, which made all clergymen employees of the state (at the same time doubling their salaries), and appointed a cabinet minister to "supervise" religion. Archbishop Josef Beran, interned in his palace since June, was quoted by Western diplomats in Prague as saying that the new laws were "treason to the Christian faith." Beran was grieved that some priests had given public support to the bills, had been "bought for Judas coin...
...illustrations for the big (9 in. by 12 in.) book, In Our Image* edited by Harte and published this week. The 26 stories, told in the fine, measured English of the King James version, were chosen by 56-year-old Publisher Harte with the help of seven leading Protestant clergymen...
...With a kind of perverse logic, those who "confessed" were set free while those courageous enough to deny the accusations were almost all sent to the gallows. Scores of people were jailed, but a few hardy souls began to speak up against the hysteria; a Salem Quaker, a few clergymen, a Boston merchant. Those still in jail were quietly set free-on condition they pay the expense of their imprisonment...