Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...concerned, and my family and my wife, who are wealthy people, there has been provided $50,000,000,000 in tax-exempt securities in which we can invest our money and pay no part toward the support of the Government. I think that is a pernicious system." With this as a jumping-off point Doris Duke's husband, James Henry Roberts Cromwell, proceeded to tell the House Ways & Means Committee how to reform the U. S. tax system. He had flown straight from Honolulu and was fairly bursting with ideas. He wanted to abolish all income, gift, estate...
...vice-Governor of the Philippines in 1930, he challenged him to a duel, whereupon startled Herbert Hoover changed signals, appointed Mr. Roosevelt Minister to Hungary. Lately Narciso Lapus has been disturbed by the coolness which Philippine President Manuel Quezon and Quintin Paredes, Philippine Resident Commissioner in Washington, have displayed toward a House resolution-introduced by Representative Thomas O'Malley of Milwaukee-"to provide for the immediate and complete independence of the Philippine Islands...
Crabwise march God's churches, usually, as they creep slowly toward Christian Unity. For believers in this great concept, to which the Roman Catholics alone offer a great obstacle (papal supremacy), last week was an active one. Churchmen took two steps forward, only one step backward...
...precedent. To many an Anglican and High Episcopalian, "open communion" is fraught with danger. To them this celebration is no mere Lord's Supper or fellowship meal; it is a sacrificial act performed by a priest of the historic ministry, or even (depending on their inclinations toward Catholicism) a repetition of the sacrifice of Christ upon the Cross...
...ecumenical movement. The High -Church Episcopal Living Church, in a 3,000-word editorial, riddled intercommunion as being contrary to the Prayer Book, disturbing to the faith of the faithful, fostering the idea that the Church is "just another sect," denying the sacrificial quality of the celebration, tending toward sacrilege, admitting that human fellowship can be a substitute for "Divine Society." Said the Living Church: "We ask for . . . sympathetic understanding in our disagreement with those who would make intercommunion a means to Christian unity rather than its goal...