Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gastonia, got going again last week at Charlotte after repeated delays (TIME, Sept. 23). The 16 defendants, mostly Northern organizers of the National Textile Workers' Union (Communist), hired a new lawyer-a big-framed, ingratiating Baptist named Frank Flowers who voted for Al Smith and has conservative social views. His type and standing were expected to help the "atheistic" labor radicals with the fundamentalist jury. Further help to the defendants, who were pleading they shot in self-defense when Sheriff Aderholt came to "raid" their headquarters, seemed to lie in recent episodes of the textile war- unionists flogged...
...Washington last week to organize the all-embracing Co operative Committee were Bishop Thomas Nicholson (president) and Francis Scott McBride (general superintendent) of the Anti-Saloon League; President Ella Alexander Boole of the W. C. T. U.; Chairman (Bishop) James Cannon Jr., of the Board of Temperance and Social Service of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South and President (Bishop) William Fraser Mc Dowell of the Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Second-in-command under Chairman Callahan on the new committee will be Dr. Arthur James Barton, chief of the Southern Baptist Social Service...
...religion. "What manner of church is it that can appeal to souls living in this age? It is only a worshipping, teaching, practicing, creative church whose members are prepared to mark themselves off from all outsiders by a different manner of life affecting all their financial, domestic, civic and social relations, forcing them into constant protest against the present sub-Christian* order and making them ready to dare all for Christ's sake...
Unquestioned was that social Manhattan position into which Marjorie de Loosey ("Bubbles") Oelrichs was born. Her father, Charles de Loosey Oelrichs, though not well off, came from a wealthy family, was a brother of potent Manhattan Financier Hermann Oelrichs...
...book, bullying delicate young Leo Silberstein, a Jew. Leo serves only to provide the author with the bleak picture of a despised race. The author is likewise merely a spectator when adults talk politics; when the workers march singing behind their arrested leader; when Germans who were once social and political enemies fall hysterically into each other's arms because "they need their hatred for the other people''; when philosophical Ferd is stoned for predicting Germany will lose the War; when the Battle of Verdun makes so many of his playmates orphans; when people, tired of Death...