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Temperance organizations across the land rose to the attack like blind tigers. A hurricane of protesting letters swirled into the Vice President's office and the White House. Meeting in Chicago, the Council of Bishops of the Methodist Church got off a wire: "No man connected with the liquor industry should be placed in such a position ... We do not feel that organized liquor traffic should have a place of honor and power in your Administration." Amen, cried the W.C.T.U., the National Temperance League and the National Temperance and Prohibition Council...
...Bill Knowland walks with fast, seven-league strides which seem to symbolize his driving ambition and dedication to work. His well-written speeches are delivered in the unmodulated, protesting tone of an overworked undertaker. To reporters, he speaks largely in pompous platitudes. He does not smoke, is a Methodist and a joiner (a Mason, an Eagle, a Moose, and a Native Son of the Golden West...
Football (Sat. 2:55 p.m., ABC). Notre Dame v. Southern Methodist...
...ECKHARDT, Methodist professor of religion at Lehigh University, in The Christian Century...
...show how they felt, the town's parents pulled all 360 pupils out of the school. They staged some 35 demonstrations, paraded around with signs reading WE WANT JUSTICE; LET EVERYBODY PRAY: WE WANT OUR HIGH SCHOOL BACK. Last year retired Methodist Minister James C. Rawlings decided to go to court, asked that nuns be barred from teaching in the public schools. This fall 460 citizens filed another suit, charged that the school board was discriminating against Bradfordsville "to promote the policies and purposes of the Roman Catholic Church." Governor Lawrence Wetherby tried to suggest a compromise. But when...