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...remaining 16.4 percent is divided among the smaller denominations as follows: Baptist, 188: Protestant, 163: Christian Science, 87; Lutheran, 82, Christian Church, 54, Reformed church, 42: Universalist, 27: Quaker, 27: Latter Day Saints, 22: Greek Orthodox, 20, Union Church, 10: Evangelical Church, eight, United Church of Canada, six, Swedenborgian, five: Buddhist, four: Church of New Jerusalem, three: Ethical Culture, three: United Brethren, Mohammedan, and Hindu, two each: Russian Orthodox, Humanism, New Church, Plymouth Brethren Bahai. Armenian Church, Church of God, Laurentian, Seventh Day Adventist, and Church of Christ, one each...
...Quaker President Herbert Hoover should say: "We are a great Catholic nation and such we should remain!"-that would be news. In Vatican City last week Editor Count G. Dalla Torre of the Papal newsorgan Osservatore Romano thought he had news nearly as big. Just arrived was a communication from Jean Cardinal Verdier, new Archbishop of Paris (TIME, Dec. 2). Joyously the prelate reported that he had just had audience with the President of France, M. Gaston ("Gastou-net") Doumergue, stanch Protestant, who said (said the Cardinal): "Your Eminence is a representative among us of that immense moral force...
...coat, the wide-brimmed black hat of Bryan and the oldtimers, which helps distinguish him among the more babbitty modern members. In the House his voice assumes a peculiar, almost clerical (but not monotonous) drone. Then he is meek, likes to remind his listeners that his mother was a Quaker. His own faith is the Episcopalian. He drives out of Washington for Sunday services in country churches. He smokes three cigars a day. does not chew, swears privately. His fraternal affiliations: Masons (32nd degree. Knights Templar. Shriner). Rotary. Odd Fellows. (Continued Outside Congress...
...Comrade Stalin were Quaker Hoover that is what he would do?it may be fairly, logically assumed...
...citizens would be aghast if President Hoover, good Quaker, worker for world peace, should suddenly declare: "The human race develops by war and succeeds in war in proportion to its use of metal. . . . Races perish in peace. . . . Culture is increased by invention of new weapons . . . pacifists err in assuming that peace is desirable. . . . We Americans are living in unpaid luxury and must pay in full in blood...