Word: sabbaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Knight (Research & Technology). Closer than any of these to the Secretary is lean, loyal, Lincolnesque Under Secretary Milburn Lincoln Wilson, a fellow alumnus of Iowa State College whose father used to read him Wallace's Farmer by kerosene lamp, with special emphasis on Uncle Henry's Sabbath School lessons...
...Biggest U. S. denomination: the Roman Catholic, with 21,322,688 members (15,492,016 over 13 years of age). Biggest Protestant groups: Baptists of all kinds (10,322,005); Methodists (9,109,359). Statistician Weber estimated that 20,000,000 people attend church on the Sabbath. Of his figures he said: "They are impressive indices of the presence in the American commonwealth of faith and hope and love...
...week ago Sunday, students who had missed Governor Hurley's proclamation continuing Daylight Saving Time, spent most of the sabbath attempting to adjust themselves and their timepieces...
...Sabbath calm at turreted Windsor Castle, where King George, Queen Elizabeth and their daughters were spending the weekend, was shattered last week as the castle was "bombed" in a mock air-raid. No airplanes flecked the sky and the Royal Family strolled about the grounds as the "bombs" went off around them. The "bombs": nothing more than mighty firecrackers. The only damage: a window in the Royal Mews which fell clattering to the ground as a "bomb" went off too close. Windsor volunteers, organized in decontamination and first-aid squads, raced over the grounds aiding the fake "victims." All this...
Last Sunday, however, trustees of Mr. Larrowe's church met to decide whether fishing on Sunday is unChristian, whether Mr. Larrowe had been guilty of negligence in leaving his congregation, and whether any action should be taken against him. After listening to Mr. Larrowe's views on Sabbath observance, the trustees voted 37-to-1 in his favor. His congregation cheered...