Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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If for any urgent reason a Rector or Minister ... or the Parish committed to his charge, its Vestry or Trustees, shall desire a separation and dissolution of the pastoral, relation, and the parties be not agreed . . . notice in writing may be given by either party to the Ecclesiastical Authority of...
But Mayor LaGuardia, a nonchurchgoing Protestant, was much less impressed by the moral points made against the lottery by excited clergymen than by the legal points made by cool-headed jurists who were positive the law could not last a week in the courts.
Contrary to both State and Federal statutes, the lottery seemed by the end of the week to have few friends, little chance of survival. Churchmen leaped up to denounce it, well aware that they could take credit for having killed it. The Brooklyn Church and Mission Federation began circulating petitions...
Roman Catholics, who always " fight vigorously against any proposals to legalize birth control or liberalize divorce laws, had nothing to say publicly against lotteries. Their Church's attitude is that under proper circumstances gambling is not sinful. Indeed the Papal States used to run lotteries as do many Catholic...
Mount Holyoke, which made testy gentlemen snort "rib factory" and "Protestant nunnery" when famed Mary Lyon founded it in 1837, is the eldest and most retiring of the five sisters. Always studious, always hard up, its students have been little changed by Depression. They dress drably and, under the large...