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...purpose of deciding anything or advising His Imperial Majesty, merely to have the Son of Heaven give his august sanction to new policies previously agreed upon. For let the Emperor, descendant of the Sun Goddess and himself godly in Japanese eyes, speak in Imperial Conference, and impious is any Japanese, high or low, who dissents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: True Intentions | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

...publicly they would never do it again. At week 's end the Federal Communications Commission, itself the recipient of many a how-now, demanded an electrical transcription of the program, a copy of the sponsor-broadcaster contract, names of all stations which had carried Miss West's impious Adam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 27, 1937 | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

...year's most showy parade, taking half an hour to pass through the portals of the Church of the Blessed Sacrament. There on a throne sat Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Apostolic Delegate to the U. S., whose name (pronounced chee-kone-yonny) had become to many an impious Detroiter "Chicken Annie." Three papal bulls were read and Archbishop Mooney knelt in prayer until the Apostolic Delegate led him to the throne, placed a crosier (crook) in his hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mooney to Detroit | 8/16/1937 | See Source »

Because they believe it impious to sign contracts, thriftless to accept charity, the hardworking, straight-laced Mennonites of Eastern Pennsylvania firmly flouted the late AAA. Farming Mennonites voluntarily reduced acreage in accordance with the Act's spirit but put their names to nothing accepted no benefits (TIME, March 18, 1935). In Lancaster, Pa. last week the Mennonite Board of Missions revealed that the new Social Security Act is equally incompatible with the sect's tenets. The Board wrote the Philadelphia office of the Social Security Board declaring that, although Mennonites will gladly pay the taxes the law demands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOCIAL SERVICE: Pensioners | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...kindly-faced priest smiled assent. Small John Kennedy donned the red cloth biretta of a cardinal, jingled a golden cross on a massive chain, slipped a cameo ring on his big finger. Then John's father, New York's Representative Martin J. Kennedy, devout Roman Catholic, protested such impious play. But Alexis Henry Cardinal Lepicier said: "Why not? Nothing is more blessed than that which is touched by a child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Marian Congress | 8/20/1934 | See Source »

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