Word: conventionalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The will of the people finally became manifest a fortnight ago at a convention of Adhemar's personally operated Social Progressive Party. Into the assembly hall of Rio's Chamber of Deputies whose rosewood paneling and carved furnishings were hidden by banners, flowers and clouds of confetti, thronged...
¶ Meeting in St. Paul, delegates to the 96th annual synod of the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church (membership: 516,968, fifth largest of the 18 Lutheran bodies in the U.S.) pondered the current shortage of pastors (857 available for 1,211 congregations), protested that "political expediency" in Washington has held...
Shirey, pastor of a Cullendale. Ark. church, was asking the 95th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (Southern) for a quick vote on the most disputed issue facing its six-day convention: a request that the assembly "reconsider and rescind" its 1954 pronouncement that "segregation is un...
¶The Protestant Episcopal Church has a relatively liberal attitude toward integration. The North Georgia Convention recently declared that "segregation on the basis of race alone is inconsistent with the principles of the Christian religion." In Atlanta, while services are segregated, white and Negro children are confirmed together, and whites...
¶The all-white Southern Baptist Convention, biggest Baptist group in the world (membership: 7,883,708), has taken an equivocal stand on segregation, last year commended the Supreme Court for "deferring" application of its ruling on desegregation. Two Negro Baptist conventions have 7,133,357 members, operate separately from...