Word: passion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Preliminary which will include two classes: from 8 to 18, from 18 to 21. Training in the first period will be conducted through the Fascist Balilla and Avanguardisti "to give boys a passion for military life through frequent contacts with the armed forces whose warlike traditions and glories will be re-evoked." Besides drilling, 20 hours of the high-school year will be devoted to military history (the Fascist version of Italy's part in the War): map reading, the organization and duties of the various branches of the service. No schoolboy may be promoted to a higher class...
...organizations had asked him to represent them against it in court. To Mayor LaGuardia went protests from the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Long Island, The Bronx Clergy Association and Liberal Episcopalian Dr. Walter Russell Bowie who wired: "It would be depth of unwisdom to give civic encouragement to that passion for gambling which can be so sinister in its personal and social consequences." The New York Presbytery called it "subversive to the morals of our people." The Greater New York Federation of Churches condemned it as "a measure which would carry incalculable moral costs...
...dignified chief of the Government's Military Affairs Commission at Peiping, asked himself what he and other high officers could do for China while simple soldiers were buttoning themselves up. Suddenly General Ho was struck by the great fact that China unquestionably has too many generals. In a passion of self-abnegation Full General Ho dispatched a petition to President Lin Sen at Nanking asking to be demoted to the rank of a mere Major General. "The rules governing promotion," darkly added Full General Ho, "should in future be observed...
Editor of the new biweekly is Rev. Dr. Edmund B. Chaffee, an energetic, square-faced, 40-year-old churchman with a great passion for social betterment. Born near Detroit, he studied law at the University of Michigan, went to Union Theological Seminary, got a Manhattan pastorate in 1916 which he promptly lost because of his pacifism. Mr. (as he prefers to be called) Chaffee served in Jerusalem as a Red Cross captain. When he returned to the U. S. he took the job he still holds-director of the Presbyterian Labor Temple on Manhattan's radical 14th Street. Founded...
Married. Anton Lang Jr., faculty member at Georgetown University, son of the onetime "Christus" of the Oberammergau Passion Play; and Clara Mayr, this year's Oberammergau "Magdalene," in Oberammergau. Mrs. Lang's role will be filled by Fraülein Ritta Kosch...