Word: conductive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grave difficulties. Touching on the resignations of several ministers, he went on to mention the enforcement of the religious laws, saying that the result has been to how that the "Mexican people are indifferent to the suppression of the cults" and roundly charging the Roman Catholic clergy with rebellious conduct. He noted, too, that several foreigners, among them two "North Americans" (meaning U. S. citizens), had been expelled in "an effort to clean up the morals of the nation." Referring to education, he stated that "92% of the population to be educated is receiving instruction in well-equipped, modern edifices...
Firearms. The National Association of Attorneys General passed a resolution asking the President to call a conference of state governors to regulate the use of firearms. The same body was asked to resolve, but did not, in commendation of Massachusetts' conduct of the Sacco-Vanzetti case...
During the conference, the women delegates talked among themselves about sex equality in the church. On one of the last days they-presented a petition setting forth the obvious fact that, whereas far more women than men go to church and do church work, the conduct of churches is almost entirely in the hands of men on trustee and vestry boards...
...Neptune, N. J., the Rev. Irving Meier, pastor of the Full Gospel Church, was arrested last week on a charge of disorderly conduct because he persisted in conducting "screeching, howling and hilarity" in his tent-tabernacle after 10 p. m. Upon his promising to cease his pentecostal endeavors at a seemly hour he was discharged...
...kept quiet, but his reticence had not been rewarded. In June he had protested against the treatment he was getting in the jail, and an investigating board had found his complaints unfounded. Last week he asked Governor Ed. Jackson for a 90-day parole so that he could personally conduct his plea to the State Supreme Court for a retrial of the Oberholtzer case. Governor Jackson refused his request...