Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, the controversy over the Nation had boiled up into a first-rate argument over freedom of the press. In the current issue of the Nation, 107 educators, lawyers, clergymen and writers, such as Reinhold Niebuhr, Sumner Welles, Publishers Palmer Hoyt, Mark Ethridge and Ralph McGill, signed "An Appeal to Reason and Conscience" demanding that the New York City board change its mind. New York City's School Superintendent William Jansen had defended the ban as "based on the long-established American tradition that religious discussions and criticism of religion have no place in the classroom...
Stepinac, with a capacity of 1,360 students, does offer everything, from manual training to a radio studio. When fully staffed, it will have 54 priests-more than the total number of ordained clergymen in many a U.S. Episcopal diocese. Each priest has a comfortable parlor-bedroom-&-bath of his own on the penthouse level of the school. On Sundays the priests will help out in Westchester parishes and get to know the parents of their pupils. The parents will also be invited to school functions, including the evening dances and roller-skating parties in the gym. "Westchester...
This diagnosis emerged from a meeting of 2,000 of the world's foremost psychiatrists and psychologists (with a sprinkling of educators, clergymen and other soul-searchers). They had come from 54 countries to meet in London in a UNsponsored International Congress on Mental Health. Not all went for the guilt theory. Holland's husky Dr. E. Krijgers-Janzen thought that wars were caused by sex. Too much "moral restraint," he said, caused sexual frustration which in turn caused people to become aggressive in other ways...
...More than a hundred Protestant clergymen, speaking through the National Council Against Conscription, picked Sunday, Aug. 22 (a week before draft registration) as a day "of mourning and repentance" and the time to start campaigning for draft repeal...
...London Congress will try to find out. Delegates from 55 nations (teachers, nurses, industrialists, clergymen, psychiatrists) will attack the problem of mental health all over the world, from every possible angle. They will explore the origin of group mental disorders, such as class and national hatreds and prejudice against minorities...