Word: religion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could not serve both Jehovah and Country. Jehovah's Witnesses, otherwise known as the International Bible Students Association, count 2,500,000 followers in 34 nations (TIME, June 10). Strictly literal-minded, they believe that Biblical prophecies govern man's fate, that formalized religion, financiers, politicians and such emblems as the U. S. flag are agents of Lucifer, who is grooming himself for a terrific last-ditch fight with Jehovah. Leader of the sect is big, militant Judge Joseph Frederick Rutherford, onetime Missouri circuit judge, who campaigned for William Jennings Bryan in 1896. Pleased with publicity in Lynn...
...Harvard was founded by Puritans whose consciences had been troubled by the oaths to support the state religion that they had to take at Oxford or Cambridge. . . . Personal experience taught them the vanity of trying to control opinion by tests and oaths; and they made no such attempts here...
...claim that any non-Aryan could have a chance in athletics when he is discriminated against on all sides". It seems obvious that the conditions in Germany under which non-Aryans exist makes it impossible for them to participate in the Olympics, and that the injection of race, religion, and politics into sports in general, and the Olympics in particular by the German Government has destroyed the "free and independent" character of the Olympics...
Chicago editors' stomachs were less delicate. Despite the fact that William Randolph Hearst opposes capital punishment, his Herald & Examiner gave the picture a full page, tacked on a homely sermon against crime by Rev. Thomas Anderson, religion editor. Next day the Herex ran all six pictures and the Hearst American slapped one across Page One with a homily by Rev. Preston Bradley, publicity-loving dean of the Chicago clergy...
...courageous and resourceful man, well-informed, sufficiently intelligent to win the respect of such later students as Havelock Ellis and Bernard Shaw. Born in Brattleboro, Vt., in 1811, son of a Vermont Congressman, he was educated at Dartmouth, Andover and New Haven, came into conflict with established religion formulating the doctrine of Perfectionism, which held that moral perfection was attainable on earth. This was in direct opposition to prevailing "miserable sinner" Christianity. Awkward, shy, redhaired, Noyes neverthe-less won enthusiastic followers, particularly among women. A period of acute economic distress made a profound influence on him, led him to declare...