Word: oswald
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Long agitated by slavery, the Methodist Episcopal Church, meeting in New York in 1844, adopted a resolution prohibiting Bishop James Oswald Andrew, whose Southern wife was a slave-owner, from serving the Church as long as slaves were in his family. Indignant, Southern members withdrew, met at Louisville the next year, organized the Methodist Episcopal Church, South...
...suggested .that The Nation was too solemn, and that its editor, Mr. Oswald Garrison Villard, ought to be taken to a night club occasionally, and shot full of synthetic hell...
...Germany, Oswald Spengler lucubrates that Western civilization, now toppling over a wave crest, declines by morphological...
...reprints articles by competent observers. Walter Lippmann, chief editorial writer for the New York World, is the most quoted man in the book. Others are Sigmund Freud, John Broadus Watson, Otto Hermann Kahn, Bruce Barton, Ivy Ledbetter Lee, Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Elihu Root, Charles Evans Hughes, Patrick Cardinal Hayes, Oswald Garrison Villard, Clinton Wallace (Mirrors) Gilbert, William Bennett Munro, and several dozen more...
...Wells and Bertrand Russell, seeing everywhere harbingers of Western obsolescence, nevertheless resist this unpleasant evidence with faith in the perpetual constructive force of human will & intellect. Oswald Spengler of Munich scorns such precarious optimism as only another instance of the pathetic pride which Romans, Egyptians and Orientals felt at the height of their refulgence...