Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...states allow boards of chiropractors to pass on the professional qualifications of fellow spinal manipuulators. But Ohio is not one of them. There, a chiropractor must get his permit from a medical board of orthodox M.D.s. Chiropractor Herber Ross Reaver considered this absurd. Said he : "It's like having Catholic priests license Methodist ministers. We recognize that both are prescribing a way to heaven, but why should one tell the other what to prescribe...
...days, gowned and bearded Orthodox priests and black-coated visiting clergymen toured points of Pauline interest. Among them: Philippi (where he preached his first sermon in Europe), Salonika (where he established his first church in Europe), Corinth (where his First and Second Epistles to the Thessalonians and the Epistle to the Romans were written). The pilgrimage was under the sponsorship of the Greek Orthodox Church and the government, but Roman Catholic priests from France and Belgium were there...
Biggest split in the party came when Purushottamdas Tandon, an orthodox Hindu, managed to get himself elected Congress president last year. Tandon is a right-winger in resolute control of Congress' political machines. Nehru does not like him. In a moment of pique after his election, Nehru backed Jiwatram Bhagwandas Kripalani, a left-winger and disciple of Gandhi, to start an opposition movement against Tandon. The movement grew bigger and louder than Nehru had intended. Whereupon the Prime Minister did exactly what he does on international issues: he climbed on the fence, refused to back either Tandon or Kripalani...
...University of Chicago's FRANK HYNEMAN KNIGHT, 65, onetime Illinois farm boy who became the nation's leading economist of the orthodox, classical school. Always seated in class ("You know how I happened to leave the farm? Well, it was my feet"), he acidly criticized everything from Lord Keynes to the stock market, gave such brilliant but rambling lectures that one student was moved to remark: "Two-thirds of the people in his classes never know what he's talking about, and one-third doesn't know two-thirds of the time. But the remaining...
...then "Trotskyite" was a dirty word among orthodox Communists, but small bands of followers in many countries, grandly calling themselves the "Fourth International," remained faithful to Trotsky, claiming that he alone had preached the old Marxian gospel. One of the largest of the Trotskyite groups: the Socialist Workers Party in the U.S. Natalia appointed herself guardian of the true word and, like a medium, held forth on what Trotsky would say on various issues were he alive...