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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With heads uncovered swear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News Notes, Jun. 9, 1924 | 6/9/1924 | See Source »

...several professors like Charles P. Fagnani of Union Theological Seminary, and, if possible, a group of educated ministers like Henry Sloane Coffin, Henry Van Dyke, William Pierson Merrill. Then it means the domination of the missionaries, by ejecting them from their not particularly lucrative jobs if they refuse to swear to whatever the Fundamentalists decree a Christian should swear to. And all this depends upon Dr. Stone. If the Macartney-Bryan forces can persuade Dr. Stone that it is a sin against the Holy Ghost to tolerate "liberals," Dr. Stone, a Fundamentalist, will vote with the die-hard Fundamentalists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Presbyterians | 6/2/1924 | See Source »

...further swear that for the last two years, four months, and six days I have conducted at 12½ S. Orange St. a pawnshop at which are advanced loans of large value, at very, cheap interest, a high grade service much appreciated by the persons of the community...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sol Horowitz | 4/14/1924 | See Source »

...further swear that No. 12 S. Orange St. is occupied only by Pung Chow, a Chinese laundryman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sol Horowitz | 4/14/1924 | See Source »

...further I swear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sol Horowitz | 4/14/1924 | See Source »

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