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...which he headed until 1950. Though Baldwin was labeled a leftist for his defense of radical labor unions during the 1920s and 1930s, the A.C.L.U. also came to the aid of Darwinian high school Teacher John T. Scopes in the "Monkey Trial" of 1925, won free-press rights for Jehovah's Witnesses in 1938 and defended neo-Nazis in recent years...
...these troubled and changing times, only fortunetellers, Marxists and Jehovah's Witnesses will venture to prognosticate whether Prince Charles and Lady Diana will actually one day mount the throne as King and Queen of England. In the course of 50 years of knockabout journalism, I have seen too many upheavals of one sort and another to feel any certainty about anything or anyone in the decades ahead. Popularity, however seemingly strong and widespread, can evaporate in an afternoon, and institutions that have lasted for centuries disappear overnight. So I can but conclude by simply saying, "God bless the Prince...
...Eddie Thomas, a Jehovah's Witness, his new job seemed "a grave contradiction." He had been a steelworker in East Chicago, Ind. But in 1975 his employer, the Blaw-Knox Foundry & Machinery Co., eliminated his job and transferred him to an assembly line turning out tank turrets. Jehovah's Witnesses are not strict pacifists, but they believe in taking up arms only in a holy war for Jehovah. Since the firm had no nonmilitary jobs to offer, Thomas felt obliged to quit. Until he could find other work, to support his wife and four children he applied...
Since one of Thomas' co-workers was a Jehovah's Witness who stayed on the job, reasoning that tank making was too indirect a form of taking up arms to be immoral, the court could have concluded that Thomas took advantage of the situation. Instead, the Justices defended Thomas' broad view. "In this sensitive area," wrote Burger, "it is not within the judicial function and judicial competence to inquire whether the petitioner or his fellow worker more correctly perceived the commands of their common faith...
Though these techniques are once again popular, their full impact on blood conservation is yet to be assessed. But they are already of lifesaving importance to Jehovah's Witnesses, whose faith forbids transfusions of donor blood...