Word: loyality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ordered cleansing. "Let us read these churches out of the faith," fundamentalists have insisted through their leaders, Dr. John Roach Straton of Manhattan and Dr. William B. Riley of Minneapolis. Prolonged applause hailed every fundamentalist speaker. "Praise the Lord," shouted the delegates. The modernists, themselves true and loyal brethren, sat silent. Clearly the fundamentalists had a majority. On the third day excitement reached its height. Yet when the count was taken, it was found that the fundamentalists had more cheers than votes. They were beaten, 2,020 to 1,084. Mr. Rockefeller's church could stay in the faith...
...here the whole right stepped into the breach, joined with the twenty still loyal to the Premier, and, thus forming a majority, voted confidence. The situation is queer and precarious. Briand has a majority to which he can look for support upon only one subject, namely finance. For help upon all others, he must look to his financial opponents. He must play a shifting, short-suited game, now depending upon one hand, now upon the other. Apart from the actual financial problem, observers can watch with interest, this spectacular straddling...
These societies, like the "nations" of the medieval university, still preserved at Upsala in Sweden and elsewhere, were in form a college within a college. Many American students are more loyal to them than to their college. The attitude taken by the fraternity on moral and social questions determines its members' attitude with more finality than chapel addresses or Sunday sermons. In recent years university authorities have wisely recognized this fact, and by stimulating a sense of responsibility in fraternities for the academic standing of their members, have secured the most helpful cooperation in improving the general habits of study...
...Dwight Filley Davis received a letter from Representative Rankin, Democrat from Mississippi. The Congressman first related that in the Robert E. Lee mansion at Arlington, Va., there hangs an autographed copy of a speech by Robert G. Ingersoll. This, said the Congressman, "is offensive to every decent, loyal, self-respecting individual from the South. . . an unusual and unnecessary desecration" of the Lee mansion...
Presidential Candidates. After much urging Marhsal Pilsudski finally accepted the Socialist candidacy. His personal friend and aide, Colonel Winiawa Delugosewski, discussed with correspondents the possibility that the Marshal might be set up as King or Dictator by his almost fanatically loyal followers. Finally the Colonel said: "He will not take the dictatorship, but personally I wish he would...