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Adopting a report on the Economic Order on which labored, among others, pious Manhattan Merchant James Milliken Speers (McCutcheon's store), Assistant Secretary of State Francis Bowes Sayre and Charles Phelps Taft II, lately one of President Roosevelt's steel mediators, the conference was able to agree that the Church was as responsible as any for "economic rivalry" and "inequalities of opportunity," since her complacency had alienated masses of people from Christianity. On Peace the conference, speaking for world Protestantism, could only affirm that Peace is the Christian way, without endorsing extreme pacifism or praising...
...subjects were done in bas-relief. Although whispering lovers and mermaids survived all passing fancies, religious figures were ruled out some 17 years ago when a colored life-size Crucifixion (green cross, brown Christ, vivid red thorns and nails) remained intact after a rainstorm and such throngs of the pious came to kneel and pray before it that bathers were inconvenienced...
...directing operations from an office in Los Angeles' Chamber of Commerce Building, Mr. Pepperdine has already lined up a president, Batsell Baxter of Tennessee's David Lipscomb College, a faculty recruited from Duke, University of Colorado, University of California, University of Oklahoma and several small southern schools. Pious Founder Pepperdine is a.pillar of the Church of Christ and his teachers were selected partially "for their devotion to Christian ideals and fundamental faith...
...shirt sleeves behind a partition, washes his hands like the rest of the staff at an open sink in the corner. Pay telephones are provided for visitors. Placards warn salesmen against smoking or parking their cars on the left side of the street outside. Mottoes proclaim, the thoughts of pious Mr. Robinson in words like these: "Honesty and Truthfulness combined with Speed and Correctness are necessary to make good Business Men and Women...
...Wodehouse in the House library a pleasant occupation but not soothing to the conscience of one so illprepared for examinations as I. To lunch at Dunster with G. where the Spanish war was removed from the outskirts of Bilbao to the shores of the Charles. G., very pious as usual, says that Franco will save Spain for Christianity. In which case I hope that the Moors will stay away from the graves of Ferdinand and Isabella to prevent any dangerous turning over on the part of the august corpses...