Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Over many a U. S. radio, tuned in on Canada's station CFRB two Sundays ago, sounded the brusque, heavy voice of Rev. Dr. Thomas Todhunter Shields, 61-year-old Toronto Baptist. With reforming Fundamentalist fervor he was preaching to 2,500 people who crammed old Jarvis Street Baptist Church, and to 5,000 more in overflow meetings. Dr. Shields lashed out at the "liquor traffic," flayed the Premier of Ontario, kinetic young Mitchell F. Hepburn, who took office last July when beer and wine became legal after 18 years of Prohibition. Cried Dr. Shields: "We need to rally...
...Germany has been tortured and made unhappy! What pains us most is the injustice and unfairness of others!" With the fervor of a Messiah, he affirmed that a great injustice will be righted by voting the Saar to Germany, thus "laying the groundwork for lasting peace" with France...
...inspect the first "Federal laboratory" and chat behind closed doors with the 50 families who compose the pioneer Homesteaders. Prevented by last-minute contract technicalities from moving into their new homes, the Homesteaders were nevertheless so grateful for their Promised Land that they appeared possessed of an almost religious fervor...
...Church of God in Tennessee, was ousted ten years ago for alleged mismanagement of funds, is still under injunction (which he ignores) against retaining the church's name for his followers. Now 70, Bishop Tomlinson bustles from state to state holding conventions, ordaining ministers, preaching with Fundamentalist fervor. In Jamaica Tabernacle, decorated last week to resemble the Ship of Zion, gathered 4,000 persons to hear their bishop's exhortations. They sang, shouted, wept, sometimes wriggled and danced in exuberant piety. This week the Church of God's convention was to end in a "Grand Climax Service...
...manner. The concluding paragraph in the article, which is worthwhile repeating, viz: ''No hierarchy, indeed, are the Jews of the Administration, but they are by no means insignificant. Their power rests not upon their jobs but upon their great industry, their extraordinary mental ability and their crusading fervor for what they conceive to be the high and remote ideals of the New Deal." is outstanding in the sense that you make every reasonable effort to give TIME-readers the facts and if it should hurt once in a while it is just...