Word: sermonic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Apples on the Desk. In World War II, Fanfani escaped Mussolini's draft by fleeing to Switzerland, where (together with Italian President Luigi Einaudi) he taught Italian students in internment camps. Ambitious, aggressive and a disciplinarian (he says he believes in authority, efficiency, and the Sermon on the Mount), Fanfani after the war, took on a succession of ministries under Premier Alcide de Gasperi. As Minister of Labor, he developed the "Fanfani house" program which so far has produced more than 7,700 government-built workers' homes; he put 200,000 of Italy's many unemployed...
Methodist Bishop of the Washington area G. Bromley Oxnam will deliver tomorrow morning's sermon at Memorial Church. Services begin...
...malediction, pronounced in a sermon and letters to indignant followers, was reported in last week's issue of the New Day, his movement's newspaper. It ranges sweepingly over the book's "Writers, Publishers, Republishers, and those concerned. All Publications, Readers, Sympathizers, Harmonizers, Believers, Critics, Followers, Preachers and Priests, as well as Nations and others that coincide with those lies published in that book . . . They are cursed with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with the sword . . . They shall be smitten with botch of Egypt, with fire, with burning, with emerods, with madness and blindness and heart trouble...
...delegates of the Oxford University Press in 1755, he took one look at the record and flew into a rage. The learned press, said he, is "languishing in a lazy obscurity, and barely reminding us of its existence, by now and then slowly bringing forth a Program, a Sermon printed by request, or at best a Bodleian Catalogue." Sir William's blast had its effect. The world has rarely since had to be reminded of the existence of the Press, which today is the world's most prodigious book publisher...
Last week Baptists Joe and Corder, working out of their Atlanta headquarters, gave sermon performances as far away as Shreveport, La. Sample dialogue...