Word: religion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those who hoped for direct cash profits were no happier than the little group of men to whom silver is almost a religion, those who have fought to raise its price, to see the day when silver once more became money. To Senator Pittman of Nevada, who wangled through the London agreement, it was a delightful Christmas present. In the first flush of joy he predicted that it would: 1) stabilize the world price of silver at 64 1/2 ? 2) increase buying power in the U. S. 50%; 3) increase the exchange value of the moneys of China, India, Mexico...
...week institute for Sunday School teachers there. Both men were self-edu-cated, hungry for knowledge, eager to spread it. Within 1 5 years they had added schools of languages and music, started the famed Chautauqua Literary & Scientific Circle for home reading. Thus arose a unique conglomeration of religion, culture and fun which the late Theodore Roosevelt once called "the most American thing in America...
...impostors in religion such as pretend to personate Jesus Christ or suffer their followers to worship or pay them divine honors . . . shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.-Chapter 235, section 72, Laws of 1898, New Jersey. This law was cited in a report filed last week in Newark by a three-man committee investigating that inexplicable Negro cultist, Major J. "Father" Divine. The committee was appointed last autumn by Judge Richard Hartshorne as a result of disorderly conduct complaints against a noisy meeting of Father Divine's Newark "Kingdom." Judge Hartshorne took no action last week, left...
...Divine "bishop" had been accused of contributing to the delinquency of a 13-year-old girl by inducing her, against her parents' wishes, to stay three nights in his "Kingdom." Said a witness before the committee: "Women leave their husbands and homes because when you join the religion you cannot help yourself...
History 40 under Mr. Doolin covers the history of France from the Wars of Religion to the eve of the French Revolution, with a liberal amount of attention paid to the political theorists of the period. The outstanding merit of the course is probably Mr. Doolin's ability to make the political events more understandable in the light of the political theory. The contributing causes of the Revolution are made to stand out vividly in the student's mind. Although his lectures are well filled with specific facts, Mr. Doolin has an enlightening habit of slipping in salient generalizations...