Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Christian Church, often mentioned, is never seen. It exists as the possibly common Idea behind the many wrangling Words. Of the two great divisions of Christendom, Catholic and Protestant, neither is ready to merge with the other. The Catholics are willing to receive stray sheep; the Protestants are trying...
Detroit. By the narrowest of margins Charles Bowles, Dry Protestant, Ku Klux Klandidate, defeated John W. Smith, Wet Catholic, for Mayor.
As invented by anti-Smith Democrats, "Raskobism" contains the following ingredients: one part Roman Catholicism, one part wetness, one part political irregularity (Mr. Raskob used to be a Republican), one part big business. The religious and prohibition issues were not directly focused by the two dry Protestant candidates in Virginia...
Nov. 13?Protestant Episcopal House of Bishops meets at Washington. Purpose: election of presiding bishop to succeed the late Right Rev. John Gardner Murray of Maryland.
In 1917 the U. S. was at war with Germany. So were the U. S. Churches. Paul Jones, socialist, pacifist, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Utah, did not believe in war and said so. A commission of the House of Bishops found him guilty of "promulgating unpatriotic doctrines," of being affiliated...