Word: discussion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...questions for the Democrats now were who would inherit the receivership of the party, and who would be charged with the job of rebuilding for 1952? Those questions would not be decided at the convention. But rebellious Southerners were still threatening to hold their long-planned Birmingham meeting to discuss the future ownership of the party. That new struggle would occupy the efforts of wrangling Democratic politicos for the next four years...
...program for this summer's conference is divided into five main subjects: the Christian Doctrine of Man, the Church and the Modern World, the Unity of the Church, the Anglican Churches, and Questions Referred to the Conference. Under these headings, the assembled prelates will discuss such varied subjects as the new Church of South India (TIME, Oct. 13), the merger proposals between the U.S. Episcopalians and Presbyterians, liberalization of the divorce canon, the doctrinal bases of Anglican unity with other churches...
...Amsterdam meeting had its beginnings back in 1910, when missionaries of many non-Roman Catholic churches met in Edinburgh to discuss their common problems and the possibilities of cooperation. Among them was a U.S. Episcopal bishop, the Rt. Rev. Charles Henry Brent. In the midst of the proceedings, Bishop Brent suddenly saw things in a new perspective. "I learned that something was working that was not of man in that conference,'-' he said later. "The spirit of God . . . was preparing a new era in the history of Christianity." He set to work to persuade his fellow churchmen that...
...Brent and his friends succeeded in mustering representatives of 127 church groups in Lausanne, Switzerland, "for the consideration of questions touching Faith and Order." Meanwhile another interdenominational group had met in Stockholm under the leadership of Archbishop Nathan Söderblom, Primate of Sweden, to discuss the social, economic and political ills that plague humanity. Both groups called their next meetings in the same year-1937. Then both conferences voted to set up a joint body, to be called the World Council of Churches...
...this map, and identified in the statements below, are scenes of recent developments in the news. Write on the answer sheet (opposite the number of each statement) the number which correctly locates the place or event described. 62. This nation uneasily accepted Stalin's handwritten invitation to discuss a mutual assistance pact. 63. April elections here brought a showdown between Communist and anti-Red forces...