Word: roaches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Christian Association, under whose management the address has been arranged, had hoped to have some theologian of less liberal views than Dr. Grant debate with him on religious, topics of the hour. The logical person, however, Rev. John Roach Stratton, rector of Calvary Church, New York, has declined the invitation to be on the platform at the same time as Dr. Grant. Nevertheless there is a possibility that he will appear at the University at some later date...
Those fortunate students who are preparing for divisionals on "the Bible and Shakespeare" doubtless find themselves especially well-equipped to enter into the controversy now raging on various religious matters. The debate in New York between the Rev. Dr. Charles Francis Potter and the Rev. Dr. John Roach Straton, upon the infallibility of the Bible developed a quantity of material deserving scrutiny. Dr. Straton, who was upholding the Fundamentalist Side, lost track of just what he was trying to prove and subsequently lost the debate; but as the judges very properly observed in their announcement, the two clergymen had failed...
Opponents. Prominent objectors to birth control are less vocal than in the past, but the late Theodore Roosevelt's protest against "race suicide" is well known. Many churchmen are outspoken against the movement, as, for instance, Archbishops Mundelein of Chicago and Hayes of New York, Dr. John Roach Straton and other Catholic and Fundamentalist leaders. Justice John Ford of New York, John S. Sumner of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, Commissioner of Accounts David Hirshfield of New York and Health Commissioner Herman N. Bundesen of Chicago are other leading opponents...
...fairness it must be said that the role of gullible husband is a thankless one. As Tarlow, the perfect lover, Mr. Darney is indisputably good, doing double service as the final agent of the forces of justice and as a never failing source of comic relief. Miss Roach his a hard task as the heartless thief of love and husbands and does it well; alternating with grace between the gracious lady and the unfeeling gold digger. The rest of the caste, Mark Kent as Judge Perry and Anna Layng as Mrs. Davis especially, maintain the high average set by their...
There can be little question of the morality of the American stage. John Roach Straton, Charles Sumner and the other "reformers" of this wicked world have precluded the survival of any element of general reputability in our amusements. Their activities have put SIN in the headlines and they find themselves powerless to take...