Word: religion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despite of references to your too-facetious, almost ribald references to Prohibition and distasteful forms of religion, I no longer believe in the total depravity of TIME. Whoever can perceive the fatuous diabolism of Sinclair Lewis is himself certainly not altogether demoniacal...
...made one of the greatest contributions ever made by any man. That is mass production. It amounts to first rate genius. But just as I am color blind, Henry Ford has blind spots in his intellect. In my opinion he is mentally unsound on certain questions of race and religion. He has a streak of bigotry on that side of his mind that is totally foreign to his industrial ability...
...Ford makes automobiles-but none of them had ever heard of Mr. Sapiro before the suit. Their religious complexion is: four Roman Catholics, two Presbyterians, one Baptist, one Congregationalist, one. German Lutheran, one Universalist, one with "leanings to Christian Science," one (Mrs. Anna Brown) not asked concerning her religion. A couple of Jews (one Orthodox, one Reformed) and a man who had once joined the Ku Klux Klan out of curiosity were ousted after the original drawings...
...popped out from behind the rocks" (TIME, Jan. 24). Edward J. Murphy, devout Roman Catholic, prosecuted for the Crown with vigor, called Atheist Sterry's writings "scandalous, impious, blasphemous, profane and indecent." Judge Coatsworth, Sunday School Superintendent, charged the jury: "Nothing is more sacred to us than our religion. . . . We look upon the Bible as the basis of every good law in our country." The jury, devout men all, took only 25 minutes to pronounce Mr. Sterry guilty. They had found no worth in his defense, led by Negro E. Lionel Cross, that his attack was upon...
Uldine Utley, 15, Fundamentalist, last week was imparting her wisdom to newsgatherers, following her arrival in Chicago, to which fertile area she had gone for the purpose of redeeming the sinners. The girl had just come from Norfolk, Va., where numberless adults had suddenly espoused religion under her auspices. She has been conducting revival meetings throughout the U. S. following the startling endorsement of her methods by Dr. S. Parkes Cadman of Brooklyn, N. Y., who as President of the Federal Council of Churches carries weight as a Protestant spokesman. Dr. Cadman's endorsement made many wonder whether...