Word: religion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Farm Board's other troubles a whispering campaign was going through the cotton trade, among the same Southerners who in 1928 rejected Alfred Emanuel Smith because of his religion, to the effect that Chairman Legge and Carl Williams, the cotton member of the Farm Board, were Roman Catholics; that the new Cotton Stabilization Corp. was under Catholic influence and that only members of that faith were being chosen as the corporation's local agents in Southern cotton markets...
...youth looks at him askance, thinks him unreliable, refuses to take him seriously. His enthusiasm, inquisitiveness, missionary spirit have made him one of the most versatile writers (in subject-matter) of his century. Son of Professional Cricketer Joseph Wells, he was educated as a biologist, has written on religion, science, history, politics, international relations, socialism, tactics, education, philosophy. Onetime socialist, onetime passionate patriot, he is always promulgating some new social religion. Short, stout, bright-eyed, he has a short-clipped mustache, a high voice, coughs apologetically as he talks. In a vote on "Britain's best brains" tabulated last...
...York Times syndicate and all-wise Arthur Brisbane of the Hearst Staff, Colyumist Coolidge will be completely untrammeled in his roving assignment. "Usually Mr. Coolidge will write on something in current American life which he feels interesting. He is free to comment, criticize, moralize or recollect. Education, religion, business, Prohibition, fundamental problems of government, fishing, farming and a hundred other subjects are in his field...
...rejoined the Vatican's White Book last week: The clergy never urged the people to deny their vote to Lord Strickland's or any other party, but the flock were warned not to vote for men whose attitude toward religion has been harmful in the past and may again be so in the future. Far from meddling in politics the Catholic Church was defending religion...
...Religion...