Word: religion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strike began with violence as 3,000 pickets battled 450 police and 30 firemen at the Fisher Body plant in Cleveland. As 35 people were carted to hospitals, Strikeleader Joseph Bagano said: "We will continue to throw stones, turn over cars and resist these scabs until they get religion and stay home where they belong...
...king. . . . Everybody knows that the King's powers have been curtailed, but that does not seem to make much difference. ... A King like N'jiké is a great stabilizing force in a society assailed on every hand by change ... in fact, takes the place of a religion to his people. He is not unaware of the fact. He does his part, and I think he feels his responsibilities...
When the National Association of Broadcasters last fortnight considered outlawing the sale of time on the air for religious programs, they compromised on outlawing programs "attacking another's race or religion." No broadcaster needed to be told that the programs in question were the radiorations of the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, whom not only Jews consider antiSemitic. Since the three major U. S. networks will have nothing to do with Radiorator Coughlin, NAB's hint was directed at the independent stations which still sell him time. Last week one famed independent radioman, President Elliott Roosevelt of the Texas...
...successful in the U. S.) opened a $250 contest for 500-word descriptions of rural parsons, received 1,000 entries. Paron Gilbert will write, Christian Herald will print serially, and Harpers will publish in toto next spring Parson Gilbert's life story. Tentative title: Horse Sense and Homelike Religion...
...engaged in the controversy between biology and Mrs. Grundy over Darwin. Conklin was one of the few to do so who had a background of youthful religious fervor. He plumped for Darwinism early, tried to show reasonable Christians that there was no threat from evolutionary doctrine to a practical religion based on Faith, Hope & Charity and the Golden Rule. (Today his religion is a sort of altruistic, pantheistic idealism.) His feeling for religion did not cause him to spare his opponents a crack...