Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until this letter had well sunk in, Chancellor Hitler lay low last week, then sent up an amazing trial balloon. Nov. 10 will be the 450th birthday of Martin Luther. Flatly acting ReichsbischoF Müller stated that the Chancellor would then renounce Catholicism, become a Protestant and join "The...
...Subjugation of the Protestant churches in Prussia (stronghold of German Protestantism) to the regulation of the State by the appointment last week of Nazi Herr August Jaeger as Commissioner for the Evangelical Church. This Hitler challenge to Protestantism brought the immediate resignation as Reichsbishof of the Evangelical Church of beloved Dr. Friedrich von Bodelschwingh "Bishop of the Poor" who was elected Reichsbishof only last month by a non-Nazi Protestant majority (TIME, June 12). Last week the Nazi Protestants, organized as the German Christian Church, manifestoed: "Protestants! Our true leader, Adolf Hitler, has expelled your seducers! He, a most devout...
Postmaster General James Aloysius ("Jim") Farley accepted an honorary D.C.L. degree last week from the University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn. "It's my first degree," cried he. "It was a beautiful ceremony." Then "General'' Farley, a Roman Catholic, flew back to Washington without hearing how...
President Roosevelt had lingered long and uncertainly over this third most important diplomatic appointment. He had chosen a quiet, scholarly North Carolina Protestant who could be counted on to keep his head amid Germany's racial uproar. The day of his appointment Dr. Dodd was digging in his Chicago...
Nazification received a brief check last week when the elders of the Landes-kirchen, representing 29 Protestant church groups, meeting in Berlin, stubbornly refused to accept a hand-picked Nazi candidate as First Evangelical Bishop of the Reich. Picked by the Hitlerites to unify and co-ordinate Germany's...