Word: heaven
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year is the job of its big, shrewd, bumptious Mayor Gerald Gratton ("Gerry") McGeer. An Irish Protestant lawyer and one-time iron molder, Mayor McGeer's pet plan for Vancouver is to push it into bankruptcy to reduce interest charges. Says he: "People think they can climb into Heaven with a Bible in one hand and a foreclosure in the other. .. . The boys who profit out of a Depression are the gang who are pleased to call themselves financiers. . . . The wages of money have risen while the wages of men have gone down...
This little pig went to market, At a price too fancy and high, This little pig went to heaven (Or where pigs go when they die); This little pig had taxes galore To drain and condition its sty, And this little pig dined in grandeur and state On eight different kinds...
...March 28, it was as if a profound agitation went through the whole nation; one felt that Germany was transformed into one single House of God, in which its intercessor stood before the throne of the Almighty to bear witness. . . . It seemed to us that this cry to heaven of a people for freedom and peace could not die away unheard. That was religion in its profoundest and most mystical sense. A nation then acknowledged God through its spokesman, and laid its destiny and its life with full confidence in His hand...
Although Christian churches are officially committed to belief in Heaven as an ultimate reward for good, many a Christian considers it bad taste to speculate in detail upon life after death. Lacking evidence, a minister's conception of Heaven is not much more valid than was that of Mark Twain, who in Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven pictured it as a place where people do what they always wanted to do on earth; where, on sheer worth, a backwoods poet from Tennessee takes precedence over Shakespeare...
Martial law was declared in Japan after fanatical junior Army officers assassinated three of Japan's leading statesmen (TIME, March 9). As a sign that martial law continues, the Divine Emperor and Son of Heaven, who prefers mufti, has been wearing nothing but military uniforms ever since. By his command an Extraordinary Court-Martial with unprecedented powers was set up under the presidency of General Count Juichi Terauchi, the new War Minister, to try the assassins. They were denied the right of being defended by lawyers, their trial was secret. Seventeen death sentences were furtively announced in the dead...