Word: organ
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Telegram denounced the Power issue as propaganda for public ownership of electric utilities, but that dispute wound up with Scripps-Howard's Editor George B. Parker eulogizing the magazine as "one of the best [ideas] in the whole history of education in America." Month ago Editor & Publisher, house organ of the daily newspaper publishing industry, assailed the News issue as "far from objective, far from scholarly . . . unfair," while the American Newspaper Guild's Guild Reporter found it "objective . . . penetrating . . . avoids both the movie versions and the florid house-organ ideology...
...Christian churches in Germany have taken such a beating from the Nazi regime in 1937 that good Nazi adherents had begun to wonder whether it would be politically safe this year for them to celebrate Christmas. Taking up this vital question, Das Schwarze Korps, organ of Adolf Hitler's black-uniformed Special Guard, which consistently baits Jews, Catholics, Protestants, last week assured Germans that they might observe Christmas without being guilty of "unGerman practices," It asserted: "Christmas is no intellectual property of the Christian confessions. They simply borrowed it without asking permission. . . . This holiday is the exclusive property...
...exegesis, has long since asserted that the central doctrine of Christianity is anti-Semitism and that Christ came to the earth to save the world from the Jews. Attacking a recent speech against anti-Semitism by pompous little Bishop William Thomas Manning of New York, Streicher's organ Der Sturmer declared: "If Christ were again to come to earth and heard Bishop Manning he would say 'this Bishop Manning is an ally of Jews. He is a pseudo-priest, a wolf in sheep's clothing and a twofold child of hell.' That is what Christ would...
...Against Stalin?" Under the Electoral Law no candidate may run for more than one Russian parliamentary seat, and Stalin, the perennial nominee, withdrew his candidacy in all constituencies except the Stalin district of Moscow. "Who will feel like competing with Comrade Stalin [in the Stalin district]?" asked Komsomolskaya Pravda, organ of the Communist Youth, and its editor "guessed" that all the other candidates in the Stalin district "probably" would withdraw. They did. Nearly two years ago Joseph Stalin told an interviewer: "You are puzzled by the fact that only one party will come forward at the elections. You think there...
...Ethelbert Nevin (The Rosary), Cadman was born in Pennsylvania (Johnstown, 1881). His father was an employe for many years in the Carnegie Steel mills in Duquesne. Leaving public school at 14, Cadman took up music in earnest, and 14 years later supported himself in Pittsburgh by playing the organ and teaching the piano. After two years as music critic of the Pittsburgh Dispatch he spent a short time studying in Austria...