Word: intentions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most interesting chapters is "The Last Stand," in which Hindus indicates quite shrewdly the reasons why Protestantism was doomed almost from the beginning. It was nurtured during the early days of the Revolution because of its antagonism toward the Greek Catholic Church whose grip the Bolsheviks were intent upon breaking; but the honeymoon was soon ended. For it became cleared as the Protestant movement developed that its emphasis on the priority of the individual soul, on the recompenses of the Life of Come, on the sacredness of gospels which the Soviet materialists considered so much eye-wash, on the precedence...
William Graham Sumner was a great teacher. Mr. Keller is an apt, therefore a reverent, pupil. And in this little book, the disciple has painted the master and the man, wholly, alive, with appropriate sentiment. Mr. Keller disclaims all intent of order. One by one, indiscriminately, he picks out the characteristics of his subject and illustrates them with anecdote and incidental background. The result, as we shall see, is something more than a vivid memoir...
...working time agreements, they were ordered to surrender their NRA insignia to their local postmasters. Under the President's order, General Johnson was now empowered to jail and fine such offenders, to "prescribe such rules and regulations as he may deem necessary to . . . carry out the purposes and intent . . . of this order." General Johnson's first prescription emphasized that small merchants and other employers operating under blanket, temporary codes were just as liable to prosecution as those who had signed permanent codes...
...preservation of at least a portion of his educative intent, Captain Ayers must therefore thank Captain Stone. The salvage, however, is small; the Warner Bros. have seen to that. What might have been a dull and instructive film is muddied with a useless love interest; what might have been a mediocre romance is muddied with police records. As usual, when it is caught between two fires, Hollywood has jumped into both...
...spent at once. They truculently resolved "that this convention appeal to the President for the removal of those public officials . . . who either through their laxity or their inefficiency are responsible for much of the present unemployment . . . unless those now in charge show their willingness to carry out the intent of Congress!" Secretary of the Interior Ickes, chief target of this shot, replied sharply...