Word: patriarchical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...absolutely and eternally morally wrong, and utterly and flatly incompatible with the way of life Christ has revealed and Christianity has established." Thus writes Rufus Jones, famed Quaker patriarch, in the introduction to his collection of essays on Christian pacifism, published last week. Few of the eleven contributors to The Church, the Gospel and War (Harper; $2) are so downright. But all of them are sure that Christians should be pacifists...
Last week an old man called "Barba," a patriarch of the mountain town of Kalav-ryta, sighed and said: "The blood my family has shed in Kalavryta would fill three whole barrels...
...acre, the red lava soil of Hawaii is the richest sugar land in the world. Two of Hawaii's biggest sugar plantations, on the island of Maui, are Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co., Ltd. and Maui Agricultural Co., Ltd. Last week, 70-year-old Frank Fowler Baldwin, ruling patriarch of Hawaii's potent Alexander & Baldwin, Ltd., combined the two companies in a $25 million merger. As a result, the new company, Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co., Ltd., with 25,454 acres of cane land and a yearly output of 135,000 tons of sugar, becomes the largest plantation...
...What Patriarch Alexei is doing in Russia is all that he can do at present. . . . He has a very difficult task in attempting to propagate the faith. Despite the conditions he faces, he has finally obtained the Government's permission to open some of the monasteries and some of the churches. . . . The war was the main factor. . . . The Government found that the people didn't want to die for Karl Marx. Of course the people know that the priests can say very little out loud, even within the walls of the Church, but nevertheless the people wanted...
...present our relations with Patriarch Alexei can only be spiritual. ... In the meantime we pray for him, of course...