Word: jehovah
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London, while Arabs were appealing to Allah for aid, British Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald also appealed to Jehovah. He announced: "With God's help, peace will be restored to the Holy Land...
A.N.P.A.'s committee on the subject noted only one development in the past year to which it could point with pride: a Supreme Court decision which gave Alma Lovell, a member of Jehovah's Witnesses, and all other freeborn Americans the right to distribute leaflets without first getting a permit (TIME, April 11). And actually it was the American Civil Liberties Union and the Workers Defense League, rather than the A.N.P.A., who had aided Mrs. Lovell. But the Committee on Freedom of the Press, headed by Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune, was willing...
...father," explained the defiant little girl, "said it is a sin to salute the flag. He said the flag is an idol. If I salute the flag I cannot go to Heaven." To George Leoles' home went the principal, there learned he was a member of Jehovah's Witnesses (TIME, Nov. 18, 1935). When he refused to let his daughter obey the Atlanta Board of Education's flag salute requirement, Dorothy was dismissed from school...
...kept on smiling, put his daughter in a private school, was supported by Jehovah's Witnesses who sent him to the courts to seek "justice." Coercion, he pleaded from court to higher court, makes the flag salute an empty form, violates constitutional guarantees of religious liberty. Last week, still smiling but less jaunty, George Leoles said: "Some day God will show them their mistake." In Washington the U. S. Supreme Court had dismissed George Leoles' appeal "for the want of a substantial Federal question...
...involving the flag salute to reach the Supreme Court. Fortnight before, Federal Judge Albert B. Maris in Philadelphia had held a compulsory salute rule unconstitutional. Whether the highest court's ruling in the Leoles case was a final determination of the matter and doomed other pending appeals by Jehovah's Witnesses, the Witnesses' lawyers did not know, but they considered it unfavorable that in its decision the court cited the University of California case, in which it had ruled that students did not have the right to exemption from military training, in itself an act of allegiance...