Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your issue of Dec. 10 there is an article on religion in which that able and distinguished theologian, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, in his discourse on the subject speaks disparagingly of its powers-"For it lifts up its voice, but only to protest. It cannot command." . . . It is quite evident that Dr. Schweitzer is not cognizant of recent religious activities in the U. S. I refer, in particular, to the Legion of Decency recently organized by the Catholic Church...
Voted 410-to-127 to authorize His Majesty's Government to present legislation based on the Linlithgow Report (TIME, Dec. 3) to give India a more nearly self-governing status...
...sales of the year were a Charles Willson Peale Washington to the Brooklyn Museum (price undisclosed) ; an early Rembrandt of Christ Washing the Disciples' Feet to the Chicago Art Institute; Jean Antoine Watteau's Mezzetin to the Metropolitan Museum for some $250,000 (TIME, Dec. 17). The 1934 U. S. art turnover easily topped...
Philadelphia had never known such a musical pother, such tongue-wagging and intrigue which appeared to lead nowhere. Stokowski was resigning, he said, because of "deep-lying differences'' with the board and its failure to appoint a suitable successor to Manager Arthur Judson (TIME, Dec. 17). Since the board seemed to be the cause of the trouble, Curtis Bok wanted to create a new one which would be more sympathetic to Conductor Stokowski. "By sympathy," said Mr. Bok. "I mean more than acquiescence. I mean an understanding and awareness of what he is trying...
...League for Safeguarding the Fixity of the Sabbath Against Possible Encroachment by Calendar Reform is not the only opponent of the kind of change in the Church Year which was favorably discussed last fortnight at the meeting of the Federal Council of Churches (TIME, Dec. 17). Last week the Episcopal Churchman published the following comment by Rev. Dr. William Norman Guthrie, voluble, mystical rector of Manhattan's Church of St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie...