Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...horsy communities, Anglican and Episcopal priests commonly bless foxhounds on St. Hubert's Day (November 3). At least one Manhattan night club has been blessed by a Russian Orthodox priest - Prince Serge Obolensky's Maisonette Russe. Besides blessing persons...
Governor James's inaugural address told little of his plans. As an orthodox politician he is expected to turn out the Democratic rascals in droves, but for all Arthur James's talk of economy and of firing 1,000 surplus State employes, his House of Representatives, like George Earle's Legislature before it, immediately had to divert $12,000,000 from motor, liquor, insurance funds to finance relief...
...Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America last month admitted the Syrian Antiochian Orthodox Church (100,000 members) to its ranks. Last fortnight the Federal Council, which used to describe itself as a "Protestant agency," began looking for something better to call itself than a "U. S. non-Roman Catholic Christian agency...
When organized Labor shortly pressed the same idea, the industry (Bethlehem included) fiercely repulsed the steel strikes of 1919, and E. R. P. became synonymous to Labor with company unionism. The fact that U. S. Steel and many another company which did not tolerate orthodox unions adopted E. R. P.s of their own soon confirmed Labor's opinion...
...there were people who wished the church's ministrations. To many Christians there has been some encouragement in the fact that Russia's League of Militant Godless, whose work the Government approves, has continued to fare not very well. Last spring the Government jailed a good many Orthodox prelates in what was heralded as a new drive against the churches, then apparently lost interest in them...