Word: isaiah
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...Witnesses take their name from the twelfth chapter of the Old Testament Book of Isaiah. Their leader, the late "Judge" Joseph Rutherford, taught that they "must be witnesses to Jehovah by declaring His name and His kingdom under Jesus Christ." They claim half a million followers in the U.S., several million abroad. In peacetime their nonconformity got them deep in trouble with local and state authorities. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1940 that their children must salute the flag in public schools, in 1942 that they could not distribute literature without peddlers' licenses. Jehovah's Witnesses regard...
...Named after two early U.S. publishers, Mathew Carey of Philadelphia, Isaiah Thomas of Worcester...
...what that faith was not. It was not a byproduct of social reorganization, nor could it spring from any political and economic program. Where it would spring from no one seemed to know. One churchman suggested a key to the riddle might lie in the words of Isaiah...
...police officials, doctors, a movie executive. Their teachers were Army officers, headed by Brigadier General Cornelius W. Wickersham, son of the former U.S. Attorney General, and such eminent political scientists as Yale's Geopolitico Nicholas J. Spykman, Harvard's Professor William Yandell Elliott, Johns Hopkins' President Isaiah Bowman, Williams' Professor Max Lerner...
...inherent conflict but have become separated in the 20th Century. Now their essential unity must be re-emphasized, so that 20th-century multiplicity may become 20th-century unity." One technique will be to acquaint" students with "the great masters of reality," not politicians, businessmen and economists, but Sophocles, Shakespeare, Isaiah, Dostoevski, St. Paul...