Word: proclaiming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...therefore, be it known that I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States . . . do hereby-proclaim, order, direct, declare and fix the weight of the gold dollar...
Going even further than the text of the 3,000 pastors' protest, the rector of Berlin's fashionable Jesus Christ Church cried: "When the government of the Church compels its preachers to proclaim that all other nations are inferior in comparison with the Nordic Germanic race, it is guilty of an arrogance and an uncharitableness that has no parallel in history. No Christian should dare even to breathe the suggestion of a 'ghetto church...
...brimmed plush hat of sandy hue above his leathery face, took the steps in a rolling cowboy gait. The one who looked like a church deacon, Clyde Herring of Iowa, marched along sedately. Wrinkled Albert George Schmedeman, who had been debating with himself all day whether or not to proclaim martial law in Wisconsin, looked troubled and tiny beside moose-tall William Langer of North Dakota, who chews cigars with the cellophane wrapper peeled halfway down and whose wheat embargo was one of the starkest symptoms of the matter they had all come to discuss. Accompanied by big, rawboned George...
...Douglas, Mayor of the city of Aberdeen, do therefore proclaim Sunday, October 8. A Day of Opportunity for Aberdeen, and suggest that all our church people be present at their respective places of worship...
...exact way of telling; the last elections are all but forgotten. But it may be that it is the real defence against an Anschluss, for though the Socialists hate Dollfuss, they hate the Nazis, Austrian and German, even more, and have announced their readiness to proclaim a general strike, or at the worst, civil war, if any Nazi putsch is attempted. It would be odd indeed, though not improbable, if the Little Napoleon were kept in power by the party he so despises. CASTOR...