Word: proclaiming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bishop Edwin H. Hughes, formerly of Boston and now transferred to Chicago, concluded the speech by which he concluded the Methodist World Conference† as follows: "Now we go forward to bear our testimony against all offensive war and to proclaim that the Hebrew prophets were not misguided fanatics when they foretold the swordless and spearless day of God. God has given us here the vision of a warless world. Lord, we go; and as we go, we preach...
...organization, opened the meeting with the declaration: "In churches, in colleges, in cities and on farms, there is at last arising an overwhelming demand that war shall cease. . . ." Miss Jeannette Rankin, the first woman in Congress, spoke, asserting: "There is a simple and understandable plan for political action? to proclaim war the crime that...
...Coolidge issued a proclamation of which the following is an excerpt: "Now, therefore, I, Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority conferred in me by the said joint resolution of Congress do hereby declare and proclaim that I have found, as has been formally represented to this Government by the Government of Cuba, that there exist in Cuba such conditions of domestic violence which are or may be promoted by the use of arms or munitions of war procured from the United States as contemplated by the said joint resolution...
...will not mar this occasion by any argument, explanatory or defensive, in regard to the matter that has clouded my days and shadowed my nights. I come neither asking forgiveness nor bowed down with shame; but proudly to proclaim to you that I have done no wrong nor aught that merits rebuke from you, my dearest friends...
...Medical School at 11, and winning a diploma at the age of 16 mean beyond a receptive mind turned prematurely into a narrow channel and trained through constant, self-centered attention? These early achievements betray few elements needed for later success, nor were they sufficiently startling to proclaim the youth a genius...