Word: sabbaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Basin Saturday the Yachtsmen will chase the Bruins around the buoys, while on Sunday, the M.I.T. navy is scheduled to sail with the Crimson. Yardling boatsmen will travel north to race Dartmouth on the Sabbath...
...Church of Richmond. Other residents promptly got up a petition declaring they would not welcome a church because ''the peace and quiet of the locality would be disturbed . . . clustering of a large number of cars on Sunday would constitute a traffic inconvenience and hazard." To preserve their Sabbath peace, the Hampton Gardens Association thereupon voted. 51-to-7, against allowing St. Giles or any other church to build there...
...Angeles, Pastor Carl Allen of Woodcrest Community Methodist Episcopal Church got the approval of his governing board to change the Sabbath services for his flock of 115 to Thursday evening. A confirmed reformer who went on the stump for Upton Sinclair's EPIC last year, long-faced, sober Pastor Allen explained: "The residents of this community are working every possible day to make up for the worry during the Depression. ... I believe they should be free to go to the beach or mountains Sunday without feeling it is wrong. . . . Jesus consistently taught that man was to have preference over...
After several hours of oratory the meeting broke up peacefully. Meanwhile in Monroe, guardsmen (including a local howitzer company under Captain Brice C. Custer, great-nephew of General George A. Custer, who spent much of his early life in Monroe) stood watch. Only excitement to break the Sabbath calm was when Governor Murphy stopped in the town to attend church and visit St. Mary's College...
Pittsburgh is famed more for steel than for music. When the Pittsburgh Symphony gave its first concert eleven years ago, it was arrested for breaking the Sabbath. Four years later a home-town boy named Antonio Modarelli began to conduct. Modarelli had studied extensively in Germany, composed there two operas, Hanns Frei and Sakuntala. His Ocean Flight, a ballet-pantomime about Lindbergh helped make him the only American in the Society of German Composers...