Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...alert Editor of Religion gave a report of the meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in Richmond, Va. in which he represented with fairness the attitude of Southern Baptists toward the proposed World Council of Churches. In one clause of the opening sentence there is a serious lapsus pennae. Baptists never speak of "the saving grace of baptism." They do not believe that regeneration takes place in water baptism. Regeneration is a spiritual process and not sacramental. Salvation is by grace through faith...
Monopoly. By far the year's most significant inquiry will be that of a National Economic Committee, set up by the Senate last week in response to a special message from President Roosevelt in April. Subject to approval by the House, after being rammed through over some serious Senate criticism, the N. E. C. will be composed of three Senators, three Representatives, an expert each from the Treasury, Justice, Labor and Commerce Departments, one each from SEC and FTC. The committee's province as set forth in the resolution sponsored by Wyoming's Senator O'Mahoney...
...procession bareheaded, his great white mane gleaming in the sun. Reading without emotion from a six-page manuscript, Scientist Einstein told Swarthmore's graduates that failure of the modern world to develop a new morality to replace the declining influence of religion had resulted in "a serious weakening of moral thought and sentiment," in "the barbarization of political ways." The surrender of some European nations to "primitive animal instincts," said he, "if persisted in, will destroy civilization, religion and morality...
...trying to corner the market-cannot completely change it. Produced with MGM's customarily scrupulous attention to visual detail, the picture relates with considerable pictorial beauty the lachrymose story of Gilberte Brigard, nicknamed "Frou Frou." Pretty, light-headed little Frou Frou makes the mistake of marrying a serious young lawyer, George Sartoris (Melvyn Douglas), with whom her sister (Barbara O'Neil) is in love. When, dissatisfied with the way she runs his household, he calls in the sister to assist her, Frou Frou is so broken-hearted that she runs away. Naturally, she does not run away alone...
Inclined despite his democratic manners to be a playboy, a first recognition of social inequality came to Franklin Roosevelt from seeing the New York poor on excursion steamers as he sailed past on his yacht. The first really good lick destiny got in was his marriage to serious, social-minded Eleanor Roosevelt. Among the many excellent and sobering results of his marriage, avers Ludwig, was that it trained him for keeping peace in Congress. Louis Howe's misanthropic advice checked his "easygoing nature." With his heroic fight against infantile paralysis, the playboy streak was eradicated. So far as Biographer...