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Word: protestantism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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The U.S. is interested in Palestine because: 1) 9,000 U.S. Jews have settled there; 2) some $200,000,000 collected by U.S. Jews is invested there; 3) by the 1924 U.S.-British Palestine Mandate Convention the U.S. has the same right as any League of Nations member to enter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Holy and Civil | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

Last week the Christian Herald issued its annual statistics of U. S. church membership, compiled by Dr. Herman Carl Weber, expert religious statistician. Total 1937-38 membership was 63,848,094, an increase of 754,138 adults. Of the total U. S. population, 49.9% were affiliated with a church, as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Impressive Indices | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

> Baseless is the bumptious rumor that Madam Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins (Mrs. Paul Wilson) is really Matilda Wutzki, a Russian-born Jewess. Facts are: Frances Perkins is a Protestant Bostonian whose forbears settled in New England before 1680. Her lifelong interest in social welfare led her to Chicago'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 10, 1938 | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

Century ago the most notable thing about Protestant Christianity was that most of its practitioners throughout the world were optimists who believed in progress, creature comforts, civilization. Such Protestants looked down their noses when Pope Pius IX, speaking for the Roman Catholic Church, denied that it was the duty of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Crisis Theologies | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

Despite political disorder, widespread paganism and actual persecution, the at titude of European churchmen is not one of defeatism but, according to Professor Horton, "of courage, hope and active service of God and man - service which necessarily refuses to define its objectives very far in advance, since the whole surface...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Crisis Theologies | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

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