Word: exhorters
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...Hierarchiam (To the Hierarchy): "We address you our fellow-laborers, Cardinals of the Most Holy Roman Church, Patriarchs, Archbishops, Bishops, prelates and priests of the various orders of the hierarchy, chief objects of our daily solicitude as well as sharers and helpers in our labors. We beg and exhort each one of you to persevere in the vocation in which he was called, and that you walk worthily in the vocation in which you were called: feed the flock of God which is among you, being made an example for the flock in your souls, so that when the Prince...
...last week announced the American Institute of Architects, officially joining the Save-the-Scenery movement. From Manhattan appeals to 70 member societies were issued. All Architects were urged to enlist local booster clubs, civic authorities, most of all to exhort state legislatures, in whose province lie curtailment powers. At the same time William Stanley Parker of Boston was named by the Institute to aid a test case, expected to prove a precedent, now pending before the U. S. Supreme Court, in which the Massachusetts Billboard Law Defense Committee hopes to determine whether property can be constitutionally regulated...
This reference was to the famed Twelve Orders "on women's immodest fashion of dress" issued by authority of Pope Pius XI some months ago to higher Catholic clergy throughout the world. Order No. 1 declares that "the parish priest . . . should insist, argue, exhort and command that feminine garb be based on modesty and that their ornament be a defense of virtue." Order No. 5 states that "headmistresses and teachers must not receive in their colleges and schools immodestly dressed girls, and should not even make an exception for the mothers of their pupils." Order...
...more than two months ago by Mahatma Gandhi. . . . Two courses are open: either rule by sheer force or conciliate." The Federation recommended conciliation. But Baron Irwin from his viceregal lodge at Simla replied by issuing two new edicts: 1) making even "peaceful picketing" a crime; 2) giving those who exhort people not to pay taxes as hard punishment as those...
Even more startling was a resolution adopted by the General Confederation of Mexican Workers, a potent radical labor group. Denouncing "restrictions on the right to strike and dangers to workmen in the so-called 'Labor' code," the confederation resolved "to exhort all affiliated labor groups throughout the country to order partial stoppages of work and finally a general strike if Senor Fortes Gil's project is insisted...