Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...School, attended by his shy, 12-year-old daughter Dorothy. One day a little more than a year ago, the principal of Dorothy's school noticed she did not salute the flag when the other children did. "My father," explained the defiant little girl, "said it is a sin to salute the flag. He said the flag is an idol. If I salute the flag I cannot go to Heaven." To George Leoles' home went the principal, there learned he was a member of Jehovah's Witnesses (TIME, Nov. 18, 1935). When he refused...
...world as bad, the press, headed by pictorial sections, has displayed increasingly of late a tendency to feature the spectacular, the sordid, and the base in American life. Any justification of this course rests on the fundamental premise that most people secretly admire the man who dares to sin...
...threat is to inaugurate a rival boom for Irene's husband. Last-minute legerdemain with a previous marriage of Irene's cuts short the boomeranging boom by intimating that, as husband of a woman whose foreign divorce has no legal standing, Justice Hibbard has been living in sin for ten years...
...more fully, to try out a new season called Kingdom-tide (after Trinity Sunday), representing the concept of the Church in action. Last fortnight the Federal Council's Department of Race Relations issued a "prayer of penitence" for churches to employ when they feel conscious of "the national sin of lynching." Excerpts...
...most important man-Franklin Delano Roosevelt-and its most important activity- Business. Business has been apt to regard Franklin Roosevelt as a malicious ogre who has its fate in his perverse hands. Franklin Roosevelt has appeared to regard Business as a malevolent force, somewhat parallel to original sin, which cannot be wiped out but should be perpetually chastened. In this strange misapprehension, the gravest flaw is obvious: it does not approximate reality. Last week, in the light of glaring facts, the President and Business were forced to see each other in better perspective. Results of the mutual reinspection were practical...