Word: religion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...uncommon practice of pious U. S. judges and magistrates is to suspend punishment, put the culprit under the presumably healthful influence of the churches. Usually the results are not spectacular. Last week, however, in St. Petersburg, Fla., Magistrate John T. Fisher had cause to ponder the value of religion as a deterrent to misbehavior. Last August when A. K. Patterson, 20, was haled before Magistrate Fisher for speeding, the jurist sentenced the youth to attend Sunday School for 13 weeks. On 13 Mondays, Speeder Patterson repeated the text of the Sunday School lesson in Magistrate Fisher's chambers. Five...
...quote the Bulletin's account. "The cemetery where this unique memorial to a Harvard teacher is to be preserved commands a view of the blue waters of Lake Biwa. It is situated in the very heart of Japan, in surroundings which have many associations with the religion, philosophy, and literature of Japan, of which Professor Woods had long been an eager and sympathetic student...
...Religion the TAIL...
...face with general religious intolerance and particular oppression of the Church in Russia. Not thus challenged in years by anyone, male or female, Dictator Stalin knit his brows, finally replied: "Mrs. Munters, we in the Soviet Union seek to advance Culture, and Culture has nothing to do with Religion...
...organization. I have never resumed it and never expect to do so. At no meeting of any organization, social, political or fraternal, have I ever indicated the slightest departure from my steadfast faith in the unfettered right of every American to follow his conscience in the matter of religion...