Word: creed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...usual when British Labor and Capital try to get together, they were baited, last week, by fiery Communist "Emperor" A. J. Cook, recent active generalissimo of the collapsed General Strike. He, discredited, little heeded, stormed: "An absolute farce! . . . The employers want us to sign a new creed of copartnership, co-operation and good-will forever. It is not economics they want, but theology and a doxology...
...Manhattan, the Rev. Charles Francis Potter, M.A., S.T.M.,* who was ordained into the Baptist ministry in 1908, who later adopted the Unitarian creed, was installed in the pulpit of the Unitarian Church of the Divine Paternity. Famed for his liberal views on Christian theology, quite opposed to those of many members of his original sect, Mr. Potter preached a sermon in which he described the Pope's encyclical as "a singularly blundering, misinformed and untrue document . . . a claim of monopoly of the Christian religion that is most impudent. . . . Intolerance is one of the cleverest rapiers used by the Catholic Church...
...League of Nations written into the Treaty of Versailles. Wherever Jews were harassed Mr. Straus used his public power to defend them. He was pious in his religious observances; and always kept nailed to the door-posts of his homes a mezuzah, a small case containing the Israelitish creed "Hear, oh Israel, the Lord is God, the Lord is One," together with appropriate verses from Deuteronomy. Such a career, decided the Jewish Tribune readers, was statuesque. It deserved a memorial, and for that the magazine has started a campaign*. When the statue goes up it will be only the third...
...resistance-"comfortable, jovial, uncomplaining, baudily at ease in her blowsy element," Calam' reels through 51 years of life with husky frontiersmen, bullwhackers, soldiers, miners, gathered from the far reaches of Virginia City, Deadwood Gulch, Cheyenne, the Black Hills-an untutored rebel against the codes, with the creed of "to hell with the consequences" to guide her in a life rumbling with undertones of violence and defiance. Cattle Kate, Belle Starr, Lola Montez, Pearl Hart, Mme. Moustache, Poker Alice, Kitty the Schemer, and other lady wildcats of this astounding period in American history are highly spiced side dishes...
...signify that he accepted his reinstatement and endorsement with fit humility, Senator Reed mounted the platform at a fair in Sedalia, Mo., and, with never a mention of his own ambitions, intoned the political creed of a "rank-and-file" Democrat. The crowd, of course, caught Reed fever and again silver-tipped Senator Reed was acclaimed Missouri's candidate, promised a solid delegation...