Word: sabbaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...compelled by their religious beliefs to abstain from all work and business from sunset Friday until sunset Saturday: orthodox Jews, Seventh-Day Adventists, Seventh-Day Baptists. Existing legislation in 24 of the States takes no cognizance of this fact. If members of these religious communities observe their own Sabbath, they must also observe the Sunday of other denominations...
...regard to business, New York, where live some 17% of U. S. Jews, is one of the non-Sabbath observing States. Last Week Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein of the Institutional Synagogue in Manhattan, broadcasting his sermon, declared that this "religious persecution" must cease. "I call upon the Legislature of the State of New York to pass the Hofstadter-Moffat Sabbath bill!" he cried. Sponsored by Senator Samuel H. Hofstadter and Assemblyman Abbot Low Moffat, the bill would enable seventh-day observers to engage in business on "the first day of the week." Thus all would be equal in the sight...
...Saturday Review of Literature has commented on the weekend exodus from colleges with less satire and more acumen than was displayed in a recent article on the same subject in the Harkness Hoot. Various expedients have been suggested recently to relieve the tedium of the average academic Sabbath, but the one factor that is most in tune with the scholastic scheme of things has escaped observation...
...Instead of telling them about modern drama she urged them to write letters of protest to New Jersey authorities. Many gallantly complied, including Professor William Lyon Phelps. Other letters came from President Jonn Grier Hibben of Princeton University; the Lord's Day Alliance, the Woman's National Sabbath Alliance, the Humane Society of New York, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals...
...band, returning to its post, halts, "Sounds Off" again, and, because this is Sunday, breaks into "Nearer My God to Thee" so that all and sundry may realize this is the Sabbath. The buglers sound "Retreat" and the sunset gun barks. Kaydets snicker as the cits jump at the report. The battalion come to attention and then to "Present Arms" as the National Anthem is played. Then the adjutant publishes the orders, officers and guidons go front and center and the Corps passes in review...