Word: fanaticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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By unanimous votes the Senate and House of Mexico passed a law last week which was promptly denounced by the Most Reverend Pascual Diaz, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Mexico, as "an unheard of outrage of the public power against religion." The new law, unless vetoed by President Pascual Ortiz Rubio...
Faithful to the oldtime tradition is the life of 78-year-old Dr. John Kelly Giffen, - oldest missionary in point of service in the United Presbyterian Church. From New York last week he sailed for Africa to begin his $1st year in the Egyptian Sudan. White-haired, bearded, grey-eyed...
Died. Yuko Hamaguchi, 61, onetime (1929-31) premier of Japan; of ill health resulting from wounds received in an attempted assassination (TIME, Nov. 24. 1930); in Tokyo. Born Yuko Mizoguchi, he was adopted by a rich Samuraian, married his daughter and took his name, but in politics he was always...
Pontiff. Peculiarly and paradoxically is Samuel Seabury fitted to sit in judgment upon the wily rulers of the world's greatest city. A reformer by inclination, he is no fanatic; he uses the conventional means of the law. A representative of the Better Element, he has had political experience more...
...Mevloud fanaticism is for men only. While the fanatic crowd moved slowly on toward the mosque, veiled Moorish women crowded the housetops, clapping their hands, shrilling...