Word: saviors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week the Legislature of the State of Morelos passed a bill to tax each cleric 300 pesos ($120) per annum. In the State of Coahuila cinemas with religious themes were banned. Debate in the Federal Congress for a fortnight past has been painful to Christian ears. Repeatedly the Savior's Holy Mother was termed by Senators and Representatives "the so-called Virgin Mary." Last week the Congress added insult to injury by voting unanimously to change the names of two Mexico City suburbs. San Angel became Obregon, Congress substituting for the "Holy Angel" one-armed General Alvaro Obregon...
...particularly proud of our Republican party. By the courage, foresight and humanity of President Hoover and his successful proposal for an international debt holiday the world has turned the corner to a new order of things. The world looks to our Republican President as a savior...
Stanza: O happy day that fixed my choice On Thee, my Savior and my God! Well may this glowing heart rejoice, And tell its raptures all abroad. Chorus: Happy day, happy day, When Jesus washed my sins away! He taught me how to watch and pray, And live rejoicing ev'ry day; Happy day, happy day When Jesus washed my sins away...
...born, became Voroshilovsk. Throughout the Soviet Union several hundred organizations and buildings were also named last week after Comrade Voroshilov. The entire populace, taught, by the Soviet press that a "Capitalistic invasion" of Russia may come at any hour, looks to the Commissar of War as its prospective savior, cheers him wildly when he rides out hard-eyed and unsmiling, his breast bedight with three Soviet medals, his bul let head surmounted by the turnip-shaped Red Army helmet...
Stalin had had enough of the too ambitious Trotsky, creator of the Red Army and the real "savior" of the Soviet State from the armies of Wrangel, Denikin and Yudenich. In 1925 Klimentiy Voroshilov stood 13th on the ranking list of Soviet commanders. Surely he is grateful to Stalin for lifting him over twelve disgruntled heads to the supreme command. His antecedents are impeccable. Born the son of a very poor Ukrainian peasant in 1881, he became a proletarian factory worker in early youth, has been since 1904 a consistent revolutionist, always modest, fearless and devotedly obedient to his party...