Word: jesus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dissolution could not come to Christ's Mother, she died of love. The Assumption into Heaven is supposed to have taken place from three to 40 days later. Theologians hold that her body & soul were reunited, her Jewish burial garments cast off and herself taken into Heaven, unlike Jesus Christ "who went up thither by His own power." By an apocryphal tradition, the Apostles were miraculously assembled by God to see Mary's empty tomb. But no record of such an event has been found. The Church recounts such traditions only to keep them alive, knowing well that...
...Hitler and No. 2 Nazi Göring like Chaplain Müller's deftness in de-Semitizing the Bible. "There can be no greater opposition," cried Chaplain Muller in a recent sermon, "than between Judaism and the Savior! Christianity did not arise from Judaism. On the contrary, Jesus Christ died struggling against Judaism...
Shouting "We are the storm troops of Jesus Christ!" the brown-shirted Storm Troops of Adolf Hitler spent the week making sure that German Protestants would obey Germany's Catholic Chancellor and vote to merge their many sects in one Nazi-dominated Evangelical Church of the German nation...
...Aimee McPherson. A marriage in diving suits. A jazzband playing on the wings of an airplane. Prosperity. Herbert Hoover and Alfred Emanuel Smith. "A chicken in every pot." WALL ST. LAYS AN EGG-Variety. "The year 1931 will offer rewards for investors"- Roger Babson. "Come to the cross of Jesus Christ"-Billy Sunday. Jimmy Walker stealing an apple off a tree. President Hoover's message to the Republican convention. Smoke from the Bonus army's burning huts hanging like a pall over the Capitol. President Roosevelt on the Capitol steps, prepared to "ask extraordinary powers from the Congress...
...Brooklyn last week with Evangelist Hill was a character rarely seen now in city churches, an "Escaped Nun." Good-humored Lou Hill told of his son, a ''little tike who knows Jesus and rides up and down the street on his velocipede all day long singing 'Onward Christian Soldiers.'" Lou Hill likes to sing himself. In the Bible Church of hoodlum Cicero, Ill. he got himself photographed in an impromptu hymn sing (see cut) with four other gangsters turned evangelist: Bert Baker, onetime Capone man, Fred Jacover, "high class confidence man," Fred Ingersoll, "slickest automobile thief...