Word: proclaimer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marines, the Georgia Baptists surprised themselves by going on record ". . . that all Christian people of Georgia, particularly Baptists, speak forth with every ounce of energy by word, deed and thought against the so-called patriotic groups which . . . claim race superiority which is neither American nor Christian; that we hereby proclaim . . . that no man shall be discriminated against because of race, creed or color...
...Emperor had chosen "Meiji setsu" -birthday of the Emperor Meiji, who made Japan a modern power and Shinto a war-inspiring state religion-to proclaim democracy. Tokyo's famous Meiji shrine staged a three-day festival that included a tea ceremony and geisha dances, but at the same time the government began distribution of new "democratic" photographs of the Emperor, in civilian instead of military dress. Nagasaki residents held a snake dance and a poetry contest on the subject: "Reconstruction from the Atomic Bomb...
...general: "The field of American life is as bare of the Church as a billiard-table of a centerpiece; a truth that the myriad little structures 'attended' on Sundays and on the 'off' evenings of their 'sociables' proclaim as with the audible sound of the roaring of a million mice...
Theological Schizophrenia. Editor Morrison has no illusions that anti-Catholicism will butter any Protestant parsnips. Protestantism can never win America, he knows, unless it boldly stands up to "proclaim its own gospel." It will never do this, he thinks, as long as it is hag-ridden by the twin evils of old-fashioned conservatism and liberalism...
...President decides it is "vitally necessary to the maintenance of the national economy" to keep any strife-harassed industry running, he could proclaim a national emergency, give both sides 48 hours to end the lockout or strike, order labor leaders to send their men back to work...