Word: lutheranism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nazi candidate seemed a dangerous precedent to allow. Church diplomats tried to patch a truce between the German Christians and Bodelschwingherians by suggesting that Bishop von Bodelschwingh might retire after a few months in office in favor of Dr. Müller or a new neutral candidate, possibly Lutheran Bishop Schöffel of Hamburg. Suddenly Chancellor Hitler stepped in. Word was sent to Dr. Müller that the entire Nazi propaganda department, press and radio both, would be at his service to force a new election...
...Author's insatiable and restless curiosity has led him into many queer places and situations in his 47 years; his unabashed frankness in reporting his unusual adventures has paid him good dividends. Son of a Lutheran minister in Maryland, he was a newshawk on the Augusta, Ga. Chronicle, then worked his way for nine months at the University of Geneva, returned to the U. S. to go into advertising. Private in the French Army during the War, he was gassed at Verdun. After the War he started writing in Manhattan. One evening in 1924 he met an Arab, shortly...
Famed are the Benedictine and Carthusian (Chartreuse) monks for the excellent liqueurs that bear their names. Few Protestant church folk are celebrated for making or vending spirits. Lately, Lutheran Denmark has been pondering the idea. It began at a ministers' meeting held by Rt. Rev. A. J. Rud, Lutheran Bishop of Fyen (Funen Island). Bishop Rud told his ministers about Pastor Keiding of Valby, suburb of Copenhagen...
Once the present Republic of Finland was the Russian Grand Duchy of Finland and its beloved "National Shrine" was the high-spired, ancient Lutheran Church at Kolpana which is now in Russia. Spurred by Christmas a pack of zealous Godless comrades, protected by Red Soldiers, rushed upon Finland's Shrine. They called its slender pinnacle "dangerous to Soviet military aviation," ordered appropriate action...
Russia smuggled across to Finns in Finland last week, the Christmas campaign in Ingria began by seizing a total of nine Lutheran churches and arresting the Lutheran clergy. At Ranpyva the former Lutheran church had become a State cowbarn last week. At Retykyla enthusiastic Godless comrades organized a Godless Seminary, drummed up Finnish peasants who glumly took their places as students, will emerge after a course in Godlessness as "Godless Apostles...