Word: saviors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gompers. A memorial session for Samuel Gompers was held at which his associates paid him tribute. Said President Green, his successor: "As Washington was the father of his country, so was Samuel Gompers the father of the American Federation of Labor. As Lincoln was the savior of his country, so was he the savior of the Federation in the many crises through which it passed. . . . His soul goes marching...
Notable occurrences were two: 1) Bishop Vedenski, of the great Moscow Cathedral of Christ the Savior, leader of the Russian Church reform movement, hinted broadly at a wish to discuss with the Vatican some means of reuniting the Eastern (Greek) and Western (Roman Catholic) Christian Churches, and thus bridging the great schism which has lasted more than 1,000 years. 2) Bishop Makary of Peterhof (near Leningrad) urged that the Russian Church adopt "a form of weekly prayer for the Soviet Government, which is now definitely established by the will of the majority of the Russian people . . . and therefore worthy...
There is, however, this much to be said in defense of de Valera's agitation for a republic. Britain herself, by a long series of unimaginable blunders and appalling procrastination, forced the Irish people to look to republicanism as the savior of their ancient liberty so long denied to them. But Britain, with unquestioned sincerity, despite unfortunate complications, has given proof of her desire to atone, as much as is in her power, for the past, by granting unfettered autonomy to the Free State as a member of the British Commonwealth of Nations, and by showing determination in conforming...
...birth, death, descension, resurrection and ascension of all the savior-gods, not excepting Jesus, are versions of the sun myth...
...Majestic. Abroad his arrival is anticipated with no little speculation. The United States is Europe's great creditor. Of all the European nations only England and Finland have made agreements for paying their debts to this country. "What now?"; asks Europe. And the Dusseldorfer Mittag headlined: "Mellon ? The Savior...