Word: religion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Parnell Thomas, who in his 203 had changed his name from Feeney to Thomas, and his religion from Catholic to Episcopal, had served his New Jersey district in Congress for twelve years, had even been re-elected last November with the charges hanging over him. He had indignantly denied them then. Due in federal court for sentencing this week, he was expected also to resign from Congress, to let a better American take his place...
Wild life and religion stand out as about the only two comprehensible characteristics of Charles Waterton. Investigating the rest of him is like entering a maze that turns out to have been planned as a staggering hoax. Many (including Novelist Norman Douglas and Poet Edith Sitwell) have been lured down the winding trails that appear to lead to the Watertonian heart of the matter-only to find that a conglomeration of blind alleys is, itself, the mysterious center of the weird and wonderful meanderer. Biographer Richard (The Duke) Aldington, in the most complete work on Waterton to date, explores...
...Fraternities have an extremely important social position on most U. S. campuses, and they feel that they can keep this position only through restriction of membership. A few months ago, a Williams man told this writer that "we personally don't much care what religion a guy is when we pledge him, but if we didn't pick our members carefully, nobody would want to join us." As long as people like the Williams man must disregard their personal convictions because of outside pressure, no one-shot resolution will cure fraternity discrimination...
...representative of the Liberal Union presented a brief recommending that the rules include a clause prohibiting discrimination on grounds of "race, religion, color, or creed" for all undergraduate groups except political and religious ones...
...when, speaking for the Supreme Court is West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 US 624, 642 (1943) he said: "If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion...