Word: movement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Scout and a pacifist. I resent the inference in TIME (July 18, p. 8) that the Boy Scout organization is connected with the army and navy. If you should read chapter one of the official handbook of the Boy Scouts of America, you would find that "the Boy Scout movement neither promotes nor discourages military training, its chief concern being the development of character and personal efficiency of teenage boys...
...Roman Catholics will not officially join this movement. The reason: the Roman Catholic Church presumes exclusive religious authority delegated from God. From that viewpoint, Protestant sects are but erring scions. "Orthodox" churches subordinate phenomena. *Dr. Cadman's feature column continues in that newspaper while he visits abroad...
...have in our possession documentary evidence to prove beyond any doubt that England has been financing this last Tsarist movement...
...Christian Endeavor movement among young people is comparatively recent. The late Rev. Francis E. Clark, who died last May, founded it Feb. 2, 1881, at his Williston Congregational Church in Portland, Me. Members were obliged to pledge themselves to attend weekly prayer meetings of their local society. So sound was Dr. Clark's idea that 80 evangelical religious denominations have sponsored the movement. It has societies in 60 different countries; has more than 3,500,000 members. Of these members 20,000 went to Cleveland last week...
...Author. Writing in the current Nation, Author Sinclair describes himself: "Behold me - the prize prude of the radical movement; a man who can say that he has never told a smutty story in his life and who was once described by his former marital partner,* through the papers of the civilized world, as 'an essential monogamist' - a very old-fogyish thing...