Word: revs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suddenly last week came a violent official reaction. The Rev. James Little, M. P., called Parliament's attention to the alarming state of affairs. Inspectors of the London County Council began visiting cabaret bottle parties ("clubs" at which customers may obtain liquor after legal drinking hours from wholesalers with whom they are registered), on the lookout for "abominable scenes." Two hundred M. P.s signed a motion in the House of Commons "deploring bottle parties." Britain's official moral police chief, Earl of Clarendon, Lord Chamberlain, convoked a conference to discuss nudity...
Also last week came the annual report of the Public Morality Council, signed by its chairman, the Rt. Rev. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Bishop of London, 52, an athletic, old-school-tie moralist with a wife and six sons whom he calls his "seven assets." P. M. C. was highly alarmed about "importuning in the streets" from noon until dawn in the Hyde Park, Piccadilly, Victoria, Bond, Regent and Oxford Street areas, by English, French, German, Italian and Welsh tarts aged 20 to 60. A careful checkup revealed an average of 91 importunists per hour in one street. Two police officers...
...Rev. William Lawrence has lived for ninety year. He has seen the Civil War come and pass. He has seen the Spanish-American War come and pass. He has seen the First World War. And now the Lord has vouchsafed that he should live to see the coming of a Second Great...
...would take the trouble to check these facts with the American Bible Society you would find out that in 1905 the Rev. Herman Frijling and the Rev. Leonard P. Brink began the reduction of the language of the Navajo Indians to print. This work has been progressing continuously ever since...
...missionary district of Nevada" the National Council of the Episcopal Church three years ago sent tall, bustling Rev. Henry B. Thomas, a onetime chaplain at Princeton. The Rev. Mr. Thomas took over St. Stephen's House at the University of Nevada's gates, began to befriend Reno's Youth. Last fall he organized among the high-school boys & girls a Supper Club, which met at his house for eats, games, discussions. In no time at all they organized a Youth Movement...