Word: proposall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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*The memorable vote came on a 1939 proposal to spend $5,000,000 for dredging and improving Guam's harbor, constructing seaplane ramps and a few buildings. Actually, these improvements would have done little to deter the Japanese seizure in December 1941.
¶ Faced with an explosive plan to merge the Church of Scotland with the Church of England, appoint elders for the Anglicans, elect bishops for the Scots (TIME, June 3), the Church of Scotland's General Assembly decided not to decide, post-poned action for a year. Rumbled the...
Deputies remembered that a year ago Mollet had forced through a 105 billion franc program of old age pensions and paid vacations and still had a proposal to socialize medicine on his books. The temptation was too great to resist: in the constituencies a vote against Mollet on the budget...
The last time a pastor tried to practice the Anglican ritual in a Church of Scotland kirk, a stout-armed Presbyterian shopwoman named Jenny Geddes hefted the stool she was sitting on and threw it at his head. That was in 1637, in St. Giles Church. Edinburgh. This week the...
Source of the explosive proposal was a committee of 30 Anglican and Presbyterian churchmen, established in 1954 to examine the idea of a merger, after decades of mellowing relations between the two churches. This spring the committee hopefully recalled the uniting of Anglicans. Presbyterians, and other Protestant denominations in South...