Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question whether religious groups should attempt to nominate for election to the Supreme Soviet priests, bishops, or even His Holiness the Metropolitan Sergius who today still celebrates Orthodox rites with all pomp in one of the Moscow churches which have not been closed. Soviet reporters, while handling such news with mittens, have made clear in Pravda and in Izvestia (News), official organ of the Soviet Government, that the Russian priest of today is generally as much a "worker" as anyone else in the Soviet Union. Typically he is a factory hand, clerk or farm worker who preaches after hours...
...religious Soviet League of Militant Godless has declined, according to official Soviet statistics last week, from over 5,000,000 to under 2,000,000-this being doubtless due in part to a widespread impression that religion in Russia was just about dead, until the election eruption of religious news proved otherwise...
...bishop but are working to advance the interests of persons, some even Communists, who for one reason or another are known to have a lenient attitude toward the Church. While none of Stalin's policies is ever criticized by Pravda or Izvestia, their unavoidable coverage of basic news had made it clear last week that the recent Communist Party "purge," in which 60% of all local Communist officials in Russia were either discharged or shifted to new posts (TIME, Sept. 20 et ante), is playing into the hands of the Church. In many districts the Communist boss...
Cartoonist Harold Gray, creator of Little Orphan Annie, has little trouble getting his character into direly complicated situations. Last week the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate, which features Annie, was in an awkward spot itself. Annie had just been saved by benevolent Arunah Blade from unscrupulous Brittlewit who had previously adopted Annie, insured her for $100,000, and then shoved her in the river. Benefactor Blade, explaining how Brittlewit had been able to take out the huge policy, said last week: "OF COURSE, THERE HAD TO BE A FAVORABLE RETAIL CREDIT REPORT-BUT THAT WAS EASY." Cartoonist Gray...
Annie's syndicate wired all papers to cut out "RETAIL CREDIT REPORT," but the New York News had already started printing its Sunday comics. Last week under a Beg Pardon headline, the News performed the rare journalistic trick of apologizing for a statement in the same issue of the paper: "At the request of the Retail Credit Company, the News and the Chicago Tribune-New York News syndicate wish to make it plain that they did not intend to refer to any company or to the quality of the credit investigations of any company...