Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the babble hushed and a Roman Catholic priest had had his turn delivering the benediction (a Protestant had had first turn), the Committee on Credentials reported. It sprang a surprise by unseating one of the party's most familiar convention figures, National Committeeman Joseph ("Tieless Joe") Tolbert of Ninety...
For the High Altar in Phoenix Park the people of Belfast gave a fine Irish linen altar-cloth. Four of the canopy bearers were to come from the north of Ireland where Protestants predominate. Many a Protestant looker-on was expected, if only to hear Tenor John McCormack, Papal Count...
*On July 1, 1690, Protestant colonists in Ireland, aided by British troops sent by William III, defeated at Boyne River Catholic James II who was attempting to fight his way back through Ireland to his throne with the assistance of French troops.
Presbyterians, Baptists, Methodists, Quakers are not cathedral-builders. Roman Catholics are; but there has been no Catholic President, and many a politician who hates & fears the Pope of Rome is determined there shall be none. The Protestant Episcopal Church builds cathedrals, has a personable and dignified clergy, a body of...
When he was in the White House, Calvin Coolidge was not above cribbing local color verbatim from the office encyclopedia for his minor speeches. Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt lifted his Thanksgiving Day proclamation for 1930 from the Protestant Episcopal Book of Common Prayer. Last week careful readers of political addresses...