Word: religion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...curiosity and a keener critical sense" three members of the English faculty of the California Institute of Technology have published a collection of essays and entitled this "welter of conflicting opinion" "These United States." These articles are grouped under eight headings: society, business and economics, politics, science, religion, literature and art, and sport. Among the authors represented are: William B. Munro, Willard L. Sperry, Raphael Demos, F. W. Taussig, William Z. Ripley, Floyd H. Allport, Harold J. Laski, Albert Jay Nock, Walter Lippmann, Robert A. Millikan, Bishop William Lawrence, Max Eastman, and John R. Tunis...
Suave young President William Samuel Paley of Columbia Broadcasting System pointed out that his chain is already giving one-sixth of its time free to Religion & Education. Said he: "Columbia has carefully refrained from imposing on its audience any small personal concepts of what the audience ought to receive...
...Religion on the air was Dr. Floyd W. Reeves, longtime educator and now Personnel Director of Tennessee Valley Authority. He proposed a Government-owned & operated broadcasting system, controlled by a committee recruited from non-profit educational & cultural agencies. Dr. Reeves said he "spoke for the TVA." Where, asked the Board of Dr. Reeves, would the money or the radio channels to operate such a system come from? How much would it cost? Who would listen in? Dr. Reeves replied he had not fully considered such details...
This fine distinction put Comrade Yaroslavsky on his mettle last week. On the one hand he was moving like an Attila through the Province of Moldavia, taking Red vengeance on still pious citizens who were found to have raised the standard of religion. On the other hand, Godless Yaroslavsky was keeping up a keen fight in the Moscow Press with organized young Red zealots who claim that shock brigadiers like themselves have no time for the bliss of placid wedlock. The rumpus started when Komsomolskaya Pravda, newsorgan of the 5,000,000 Communist Youths, printed a symposium of letters from...
...bearing an Augsburg license plate. Squads of mounted police clattered up to St. Matthew's Church, but the Bishop was already inside and in his pulpit. Few paid attention to what he actually said. The purport of the sermon was clear enough, a protest against government interference in religion. One phrase stuck. "Our church has been violated!" cried Bishop Hans Meisser...