Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before leaving Africa, Marshal Badoglio had time to sit down in Addis Ababa, send off to Il Duce a long report containing an outline of a new system of justice for Ethiopia. The Viceroy suggested courts based on the extraterritorial courts of China, one for black Coptic Christians, another for white colonists and foreigners, a third for Moslems and a fourth for disputes between whites and natives...
Southern Baptists occupied themselves mainly with reports and resolutions. They were pleased to learn that, claiming 4,389,417 enrolled members last year, they were still ahead of the Methodists as the nation's largest non-Catholic body. Contributions to all Southern Baptist work aggregated $26,888,567, an increase of 10% over the year before. Baptist ministerial training was not in such good shape. Last available statistics showed that 64% of Southern Baptist ministers had neither college nor seminary training; only 14% had both. In two nations Baptist mission aries had had their troubles: 1) in Italy where...
...merger on the ground that theological differences between the two churches were now slight. The Baptists applauded, indicated they would name a committee on reunion. But the 1,500 delegates adjourned this week without doing anything about the matter. Other work not done : The convention shelved a Social Action report whose economic implications scared many a conservative Baptist. Also put over for revision was a 15-point "Code of Professional Ethics" for Baptist ministers which contained the following observations: "It is unethical to accept the pastorate of a church and then by word or act seek to deflect that church...
...rare activities of the League in which the U. S. takes a willing, effective part. Last week when the League of Nations' Opium Advisory Committee met in Geneva to deplore the state of narcotic affairs, Stuart Jamieson Fuller, U. S. spokesman, rose with special pride to report about the thoroughgoing efforts U. S. citizens are making to discover some drug which deadens pain as effectively as does morphine but creates no morphine-like habit...
...March, 1934, the hourly rated em-ployes received a further increase of 10%," said hard-boiled President Keller. "This brought hourly rates back to a level slightly higher than prevailed prior to the beginning of the depression in 1929. The report recently issued by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics . . . showed that living costs in the Detroit area were 15.7% less than those which prevailed in 1928-29. ... In September 1935, the minimum rates for male employes were increased to 60? an hour, and the minimum rates for female employes were increased to 52? an hour...