Word: sundays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jackson revised his first major draft in keeping with suggestions by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Draft No. 2 got a thorough going-over at an all-day Sunday session at Dulles' house by a team made up of Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson, Deputy Under Secretary of State Douglas Dillon, Assistant Secretary of State William Rountree and State Department Counselor G. Frederick Reinhardt, along with Dulles and Jackson. President Eisenhower and Dulles, working together at the White House, edited the next draft. After retyping, this edited version underwent still another Eisenhower tooling. The White House secretarial staff...
...over Africa," he said. "In Kenya the Mau Mau movement is still strong. The church should not stay away from the nationalists but try to civilize them-keep them with the West." Mindful of such advice, the convention decided that African Protestants will work out a unified text for Sunday school books, to be printed in 74 African languages. Asians will "stop copying Sunday school textbooks from the West" and develop their...
...their numbers." Assembled in Tokyo, just 99 years after the first Protestant mission was organized in Japan, were 3,000 Japanese delegates and 1,200 delegates from 62 other nations. The occasion: the 14th World Convention on Christian Education, sponsored by the World Council of Christian Education and Sunday School Association. Theme of the convention was "Christian Education in a Changing World," but Western delegates found that it might more appropriately have been: "The Challenge of Race and Nationalism...
...called on his flock to boycott the theater for six months. Lyng denounced the movie as "an assault on each and every woman of our community and nation," offered the theater owners $350 in lieu of box-office receipts if they would promise not to show the film on Sunday. The owners stuck with Brigitte...
...four pairs of hands and one pair of feet to keep it happy, and volunteers appeared at the last moment every night. They also filled in at the backstage bridge game when the regular players were on stage. This game lasted through the entire run of Antigone, in a Sunday School room that was commandeered for the offstage area. The noble and stately queen of Thebes climbed through its window every performance with un-middle-aged skill. One spectator had a few uncomfortable moments when he saw the spotlights hung over the audience with almost invisible string...