Word: ordained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week a group of Chicago aldermen decided that there had been too many tag days in their city. They planned a reductio ad absurdum. At one session of the City Council they got their drowsy colleagues to ordain tag days for the following: The Brewers' & Bartenders' Union; Tom, Dick & Harry, unemployed; ex-King Alfonso;* the Chicago White Sox (which has lowest standing in the American League). When the drowsy aldermen discovered how they had been tagged, the ordinances were revoked...
...religious denominations in the U. S., 44 ordain women to the ministry. Perplexed Presbyterians will attempt to decide whether women shall be admitted to their pulpits at a general assembly in April. Typical of their baffled councils thus far was one held last week by the New York Presbytery. The dialog...