Word: socials
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Trusteeship Council faced a complaint from St. Joan's Social and Political Alliance, London (a Catholic lay organization dedicated to women's rights) concerning the Fon (king) of Bikom, in the British Cameroons. Missionaries had reported the Fon to have 600 wives. Britain icily retorted that he had only 110. Said Iraqi Delegate Awni Khalidy: "It seems to me the proper way would be to leave this man to discover the futility of his actions for himself ... in God's good time." On a Russian suggestion, the matter was passed on to the Commission on Human Rights...
...Brent and his friends succeeded in mustering representatives of 127 church groups in Lausanne, Switzerland, "for the consideration of questions touching Faith and Order." Meanwhile another interdenominational group had met in Stockholm under the leadership of Archbishop Nathan Söderblom, Primate of Sweden, to discuss the social, economic and political ills that plague humanity. Both groups called their next meetings in the same year-1937. Then both conferences voted to set up a joint body, to be called the World Council of Churches...
...that R.C.s meant Roman Catholics and not Red Cross, Veronica didn't get it; she had always "thought it best to be a Catholic." As she grew up, she discovered that a great house on Long Island and another on Fifth Avenue couldn't protect her from social wounds inflicted by snobbish non-Catholics. She picked up other facts of life: "shanty" Irish didn't rate with her own "lace-curtain" set; German Jews thought that marriage to a Russian Jew was a comedown...
Spoor. In Pittsburgh, Marshall Johnson was sentenced to a term in jail for burglary, after he had left at the scene of he crime 1) his fingerprints, 2) his social security number, 3) a picture of his wife...
...profit." He supports the church, but often, says Laski, because his conception of religion is like that of the late Bishop Lawrence of Massachusetts, who said: "In the long run, it is only to the man of morality that wealth comes . . . Godliness is in league with riches." In social issues, the businessman automatically identifies "acquisition with justice," radicalism with ignorance or impudence...