Word: religion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Civil liberties were decreed-freedom -of press, speech, worship, assembly. Terroristic secret societies were ferreted out and abolished. The titles of the peerage were removed. Shintoism was dislodged as the state religion, although the people were permitted to practice it privately. The Emperor was reduced from the status of a god to a symbol of the state and of national unity. Streetcars passing the Imperial Palace no longer stopped so that the conductors could get out and bow. Young Prince Akihito might soon be asking his father what it had been like...
There were 9,525 Messengers in Memphis last week-the largest number of delegates ever to attend an annual Southern Baptist Convention. High on the agenda: the choice of a successor to President Louie De Votie Newton, a fundamentalist in his religion but a wide-eyed Russophile in his politics. The convention picked a home-town boy for the job: Dr. Robert Greene Lee, 61, of Memphis' Bellevue Baptist Church, the largest white Baptist congregation east of the Mississippi. He is famed for his preaching-especially for his spellbinding sermon, "Pay Day Some Day," on King Ahab...
Most colleges piously deny that they set racial or religious quotas-but just the same, many ask their applicants to specify their race and religion. This week President Mildred McAfee Horton announced that Wellesley College would henceforth omit these questions on its application forms-to free Wellesley from "even the appearance of unfair discrimination...
...signers are: John A. Ciardi, Briggs-Copeland Assistant Professor of English Composition; William E. Hocking, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Policy, Emeritus; Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology; and Andre Morize, professor of French Literature...
...Established writer would like a good up-to-date idea for a motion picture which avoids politics, sex, religion, divorce, double beds, drugs, disease, poverty, liquor, Senators, bankers, cigarettes, wealth, Congress, race, economics, art, death, crime, childbirth and accidents (whether by airplane or public carrier); also the villain must not be an American, European, South American, African, Asiatic, Australian, New Zealander, or Eskimo ... No dogs allowed. Apply...