Word: garb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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North Dakota's Protestants, who wanted to oust 75 Roman Catholic nuns teaching in the state's public schools, thought they had won the battle. They got a law passed forbidding public-school teachers to wear religious garb (TIME, July 12). They hoped that this would be enough...
...taxpayers): about $1,000 a year. North Dakota Protestants, who outnumber Catholics about four to one, took the issue to the state's supreme court in 1936, contending that the hiring of nuns violated the separation of church and state. The court decided that the wearing of religious garb did not constitute religious teaching...
Next, the Protestants went to the state legislature, but got nowhere. Then they got the so called "anti-garb" issue on the ballot. They passed out leaflets headed: "Where Will This Stop?" Replied one Catholic leader: "The nuns are there practically as a matter of charity. They are needed in our own hospitals and parochial schools." Besides, he added, there were only 75 nuns teaching public school, and less than 5% of their pupils were non-Catholic...
...Mennonite colony in the Red River Valley. The empty west assured isolation and few distractions for the Godfearing. They had their churches as they wanted them, without organ, altar or ornamentation. Their preachers were unpaid, farmed for a living. They clung to their pacifism, dressed in the plain garb that allowed no ornamentation or jewelry...
...nature and purposes of Pendle Hill, the Quaker school and religious retreat near Philadelphia which he and his wife Anna Brinton have managed for the last twelve years. As he spoke, the folding doors opened, and through the somewhat austere room padded an East Indian woman in full native garb. Looking neither to right nor left, she went out another door. Howard Brinton did not glance up or stop talking...