Word: finalities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...final step of declaring all U. S. Indians citizens by birth did not come until nearly two-thirds of all Indians in the U. S. had obtained the franchise through naturalization...
...Final Reports. Bishop Brent, President J. Ross Stevenson of Princeton Theological Seminary (Presbyterian), Professor William Adams Brown of Union Theological Seminary (Presbyterian) and Bishop James Cannon Jr., of Washington (Methodist Episcopal) were appointed, with nine Europeans, to a committee instructed to redraft the reports of the six agreement-finding committees for approval by the conference as a whole...
Dissent. Before these final reports were ready, the Most Rev. Germanos Troianos, Metropolitan of Sardis, arose to announce, gravely, politely, that he and his fellow representatives of Eastern Orthodoxy would be unable to accept the plan for unity. It was based on compromises, he said. It arrived only at "an external agreement, in letter alone...
Frederic C. Morehouse of Milwaukee, editor of the Living Church, led an Episcopalian reaction against the report on church unity, objecting that to outline a definite plan for a reunion of sects was beyond the conference's agreed function. Five other final reports -on the gospel, the nature of the church, the ministry, creeds and sacraments-were adopted. The sixth, on actual unity, was returned to the continuation committee for further study...
...through whose genius the World grew famed, signed a statement. He caused the statement to be published at the top of the space daily allotted to "It Seems To Me" by Heywood Broun. The statement was headed REGARDING MR. BROUN. it ended: THE World THEREUPON EXERCISING ITS RIGHT OP FINAL DE CISION AS TO WHAT IT WILL PUB LISH IN ITS COLUMNS OMITTED ALL ARTICLES BY MR. BROUN. (Signed) RALPH PULITZER.- Editor the World