Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Oldest (32 years) and largest (400) of orthodox rabbi groups, the Agudath Harabonim (Union of Orthodox Rabbis of U. S. and Canada), met in Lakewood, N. J. last week to tackle money matters. Rabbis' salaries were running in arrears. For charities and schools there was a serious lack of ready cash. The Union voted to solve its financial problem by levying a tax on that cornerstone of orthodox Jewish life, the kosher slaughterhouse. It figured that if it could collect ½? on every pound of kosher meat sold. it could raise $1,000,000 or more in one year...
...Morris Plan banks in 150 U. S. cities. Founded on a desire to provide the laboring man with a better source of credit than the fleecing loan shark, the Morris Plan is today dignified by the name "industrial banking." Morris Plan Banks ("companies" in some states where only an orthodox bank may use the word) make loans of $50 to $5,000 largely on character, earning power and two indorsements - a type of business which many commercial banks find un profitable. Some of the banks are controlled by Morris Plan Corp. of America but most of them are autonomous local...
Wasp-waisted Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek agrees with President Roosevelt that the present is no time for old-fogyish, orthodox finance. Last week he accepted the resignation of orthodox. Harvard-graduated Finance Minister Dr. T. V. Soong, the only man who has ever balanced Republican China's budget...
...first blush, the orthodox economists and experts thought they saw only confusion in the plan for a commodity standard, but they overlooked a much more essential point in the President's policy. It is his rejection of the idea of devaluing the dollar by changing the gold content at this time...
...scientists of the 12th Century were theologians. The Church was not only the narrow way of salvation but the only road to knowledge. When Peter Abelard sought fame as a scholar he inevitably became a tonsured celibate. Within the frame of orthodox Catholic theology (once thought sufficient to contain the universe) Abelard was not only a brilliant scholar but a bold thinker. Envious' and less able enemies had maneuvered him out of one hall of learning after another, but wherever he was he drew throngs of worshipful listeners. Authoress Waddell's narrative finds him at the peak...