Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Births. With his wife and daughter, M. Boverat stopped in for tea and croissants one afternoon last winter at the hitherto quiet, respectable Restaurant Bagdad. Little did the Boverat family suspect that the Bagdad's proprietor had decided to make a stand against Depression by the drastic step of hiring a fan dancer who had played in some of the hottest cabarets and vaudeville houses from Chicago to Miami...
...self-organization of employes in industry. ... It may eventually eliminate one major cause of labor disputes but it will not stop all labor disputes. . . . Accepted by labor, management and the public, with a sense of sober responsibility and of willing cooperation, however, it should serve as an important step toward the achievement of just and peaceful labor relations in industry...
...they know of no dead Chancellor more righteous than the late Engelbert Dollfuss who was just the right size to sit beside a cherubim. Last week the Austrian Government of deeply pious Chancellor Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg cast up their eyes to Heaven and declared they were taking a momentous step which they felt would please departed Dollfuss. This step was to ask Austria's hand-picked and subservient State Council to restore over 50,000,000 schillings ($9,510,000) worth of worldly goods to Archduke Otto, the young Austrian pretender who heads the House of Habsburg, sometime Holy Roman...
...Jews beware of any current secular movement which tends to consider Judaism a civilization rather than a religion. But Rabbi Philipson declared the time had come to re-examine Reform Jewry's credo, see how it stacked up under modern conditions. And the conference took the first step, after stormy debate and cries of "subterfuge" and "cowardice," by reversing its stand on Zionism, resolving: "We are persuaded that acceptance or rejection of the Zionist program should be left to the determination of individual members...
...Northern Baptists convened in Colorado Springs. Hard-shelled delegates wished to stick to the oldtime religion, to wrestle with old- time problems like dancing and card-playing in church buildings. But liberal Baptists felt that the time had come for their church to burst its religious bonds, step out into social, economic and political arenas. To that end. months ago, the Christian Social Action Commission had prepared a 15,000-word report. Baptists up & down the land heard and discussed the report. Because of it, some Baptist churches threatened to leave the Convention. Typical of its opponents...