Word: religion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week's [TIME, July 11] make-up (technical term unknown) was most pleasing. Delighted with the elimination of Religion. Being a person of no discrimination, I read from cover to cover and always waded painfully with boredom & bewilderment, thru Religion. The relief of not having to read it this time was exquisite...
...Posey County, Ind., had seven successive constitutions, failed both under a dictatorship and when it split into ten separate communities. Some communities died out because they did not believe in having children. Others that believed in Free Love were smashed by vigilantes. Some broke up in quarrels about property, religion, women. Brook Farm, at West Roxbury, Mass., died of an excess of literary...
...board for 40 years. In the late 1890s, when John Carrere and Thomas Hastings designed the big building at the corner of 42nd St. and Fifth Ave. in Manhattan, they had ambitious plans for the upstairs panels. They thought of John Singer Sargent, whose gaudy Triumph of Religion in the Boston Public Library they admired. They thought of James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Whistler died in 1903. The library, privately endowed (only the building is public property), was too poor to pay Sargent's price, too proud to give the job to anyone but a really "distinguished painter...
Religious and devotional programs, gen erally considered more a public service than a commercial aspect of radio, were given proportionately more time by commercial sponsors than by the stations as sustainers. Sponsors bought 34.55% of radio's total time, of that gave 5.75% to religion. Religious programs ran only 4.8% of total sustaining time (5.15% of total broadcasting time...
...odds with the church administration because he thinks it has introduced too much business into religion, Businessman Babson arrived at the convention with a plan to reduce the church officials' power. At the opening session Dr. Charles Emerson Burton, retiring general secretary, replied to Moderator Babson's charges, agreed that Congregationalist ministers' salaries (average: $1,663) are too low, but declared the remedy is more businesslike money-raising, added: "Our men are not whining much...