Word: luthers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Africa to watch the birth of the new nation of Ghana, Vice President Richard Nixon paused between ceremonies to greet another observer from home. To Montgomery, Ala.'s Rev. Martin Luther King, the Vice President remarked : "I recognized you from your picture on the cover of TIME . . . That was a mighty fine story about you." The two promised to meet again in Washington, and Nixon went about the vice-presidential business of winning African friends for the U.S. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, With Pat & Dick in Africa...
...Seal Richard A. ("Rab") Butler, talked about the forthcoming Ike-Macmillan conference in Bermuda, complimented Britain on her long, mutually profitable role in Ghana. Next day he held an impromptu talk with an American he never had met, Montgomery, Ala.'s bus-boycott leader, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King (TIME, Feb. 18), invited King to confer with him in Washington...
...Ranging from U.S. Vice President Nixon (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) and Britain's Lord Privy Seal R. A. ("Rab") Butler to Red China's Marshal Nien Yung-cheng. Among especially invited U.S. Negroes: Dr. Ralph Bunche, Representative Adam Clayton Powell Jr., the Rev. Martin Luther King, A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, and Mrs. Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong...
...Martin Luther had not been born when John Hus, Roman Catholic priest and rector of the University of Prague, thundered against the corruption of the church under the antipope John XXIII-simony, sale of indulgences, etc.-and cried out for reform. Tried for heresy, condemned and bound to the stake in 1415. he cried: "I shall die with joy in the faith of the Gospel I have preached!" Then the flames flared up, and their light has not yet died. Last week John Hus's followers, known now as the Moravian Church, celebrated their 500th anniversary...
...celebrated TV ban that Chicago's station WGN imposed on the film Martin Luther after protests by individual Roman Catholics (TIME, Dec. 31) was lifted last week by the intervention of the city's leading Catholic. Samuel Cardinal Stritch. the wise, wiry head of the U.S.'s biggest Catholic archdiocese (1,800,000). Although the diocese's official newspaper condemned the film in emphatic terms ("a hate-provoking movie"), Stritch's office issued a statement affirming "the democratic right" of all faiths to "the honest expression of a religious viewpoint" on TV. The diocese also...