Word: dawson
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Swell of Protest. Many Protestant leaders across the land reacted with immediate cries of protest. The sharpest words fired at Baptist Harry Truman came from Dr. J. M. Dawson, executive secretary of the Baptist Public Affairs Committee. "It is perhaps a frantic bid for holding machine-ridden big cities in the approaching hot Presidential race," he said. "It is a deplorable resort to expediency,, which utterly disregards our historical constitutional American system of separation of church and state." Truman's pastor, the Rev. Edward Hughes Pruden, said in a sermon (which the President did not hear) that...
...said, "The ownership of property . . . comes as a reward for work; it's no longer a passport to the good graces of the Tory Party," is the son of a surgeon and married to the daughter of the late Viscount Dawson of Penn, who used to sign George V's medical bulletins. Eccles' wife, Sybil, is dark, intelligent, and rated about the party's best woman speaker...
HAROLD H. DAWSON New York City...
...boom is on in Montana. The Shell Oil Co. struck petroleum on land leased from the Northern Pacific Railway in northeastern Montana's Dawson County, and speculators were hustling in last week to snap up the remaining drilling rights on a million acres of surrounding territory. Oilmen are excited about the strike because it is the first commercial well to tap the Montana section of Williston Basin, a vast layer of sedimentary rock under much of. North and South Dakota, Montana, and parts of Canada. The well is only 100 miles from Tioga, N. Dak., where the first strike...
...Longer There? For the most part, Roman Catholicism stood against the democratic tide, according to Author Nichols. He quotes Catholic Historian Christopher Dawson: "Against the Liberal doctrines of the divine right of majorities and the unrestricted freedom of opinion, the Church has always maintained the principles of authority and hierarchy...