Word: sundays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Farm-born Dwight Lyman Moody was a shoe clerk in Boston when, at 19, he was brought to Christ by his Congregational Sunday School teacher. Year later he was a $5,000-a-year shoe salesman in Chicago. There he began an extraordinary program of prayer-meetings, social work, personal evangelism, recreation, philanthropy. Short, stout, full-bearded, he became known to the Chicago Press as "Crazy Moody." He liked to stop pedestrians, inquire "Are you a Christian?" Declining for conscience's sake to fight in the Civil War, he nevertheless followed the Union armies saving souls. Critics said...
Asked Columnist Westbrook Pegler: "What sort of Sunday school outing is this . . . that a lot of male Aunt Hatties are permitted to put their heads together . . . and dirty up the name of a decent young married woman with a public order of dismissal for drinking...
...some point during thousands of U. S. Protestant church services every Sunday, the choir rises, renders an anthem...
Meanwhile the Republicans had not been idle. Last month The Lord's Day Alliance, in semi-annual meeting in Manhattan, plumped for Presidential Nominee Landon because he had declined to deliver a political speech on Sunday; for Vice Presidential Nominee Knox because he declared he would not publish his Chicago Daily News on the Sabbath. But the National Peace Conference, a coalition of 34 peace bodies, voiced its "intense chagrin" at the weak foreign affairs planks in the Republican platform...
...keen as ever. That Denverites, for all Scripps-Howard might do, continue to like their blatant, cocksure Post is evidenced by the fact that that sheet with its red headlines and its frank sensationalism has more than four times the weekday circulation of the News, nearly seven times its Sunday circulation. Scripps-Howard editors came & went with dismal regularity on the News without materially changing this situation. Last year it was Charles B. McCabe. Last month, it was Charles E. Lounsbury, a Denverite, who was given an indefinite leave of absence. Last week it was Forrest Davis, crack Scripps-Howard...