Word: righte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...better than "Republican". He acknowledged "a heavy responsibility" as he entrained last week for Washington to present his credentials and take a seat which, though it will be across the aisle from where Senator Jones used to sit, and though the new name on the roll-call will come right after Republican-leader Curtis, will make the new Republican majority (47* to 46 to 1) more stenographic than actual. If Senator Cutting takes kindly to the Senate and wants to stay there he will have to campaign for re-election next November...
Last week, in Detroit, 3000 college students from Canada & the U. S. gathered to attend the Tenth Quadrennial Student Volunteer Convention. They wanted to find out "What is right, what is wrong and who is responsible for good or bad in foreign missions?" To answer these questions for the 3000 students came missionaries from dangerous distant lands, U. S. leaders of all Protestant Evangelical denominations. They met together in a Masonic Temple...
...Right at the start, speakers began to find fault with present missionary and ministerial conditions. The most obvious and threatening obstacle to missionary success, they pointed out, is the effect of denominational rivalry upon the potentially Christian inhabitants of heathen countries. Said Canadian Dr. Richard Roberts: "The business of Christian missions is not to get people to call themselves Christians but to make friends." At this there was a murmur of approval from the students...
...they tell you what's wrong and what's right...
...Munro, of Harvard, urge science in politics, denounce "bawling at the voter"; chuckled when Professor Thomas Sewall Adams, of Yale, described the income tax as a "misplaced ideal"; learned from Dr. Allen Johnson, editor of the Dictionary of American Biography, that baseball players and fisticuffers have as good a right in his Dictionary as Congressmen; elected Professor James Henry Breasted, Chicago Orientalist, president of the American Historical Association, James Harvey Robinson, humanizer of knowledge, first vice president; heard various professors explain that the business man must study economics...