Word: shrift
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...missions going, returned them to the German societies after the war. Today's problem is far larger. Beyond the need for immediate aid, U. S. churchmen face the prospect that an Axis victory would halt missionary work in colonies Germany may then dominate. Hitler believes in short shrift for missionaries. Said he in Mein Kampf: "Mission education in Africa is based on the absurd notion of making lawyers out of half apes...
...Missions Inquiry. The Commission produced the controversial Re-Thinking Missions (TIME, Nov. 28, 1932), which proposed far-reaching changes in missionary work, scandalized conservatives by insisting that Christians, instead of attacking non-Christian religions, should seek to understand them and cooperate with them. Mission boards gave the report short shrift, but Philosopher Hocking re-pondered it long & hard. Last week he published the result of his cogitations-Living Religions and a World Faith (Macmillan; $2.50)-and declared more firmly than ever that the world's religions must be replaced by one religion...
Liberals as well as conservatives gave the Witnesses short shrift. Mayor Maury Maverick of San Antonio, Tex., forbade a Witnesses' convention there, swore their refusal to salute the U. S. flag was an "overt act." But Republican Maine had the worst riots. At Kennebunk last week. Witness headquarters were sacked, burned by an angry mob. There and in nearby towns private houses were raided, Witnesses dragged out and beaten...
...plot and electricity. Meals at the restaurant, which features Southern fried chicken and pecan waffles, have a 75? top. Motor Courier Aldrich is proud of his big repeat business, says many a doctor, lawyer, U. S. Government worker makes reservations in advance. The solo traveling salesman gets short shrift at Pines Camp. Says Aldrich, "They kept sneaking women...
...Maney concocted an advertisement for "100 bona fide noblemen" to serve as dancing partners at Rose's Fort Worth Frontier Centennial. "In answering," read the ad, "submit photographs in uniform, with orders, ribbons and decorations evident. . . . Bogus counts, masqueraders and descend ants of the Dauphin will get short shrift...