Word: unitarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Texas League of Women Voters (inevitably, she became president of the League in later years). In 1930 Oveta decided to run for the Texas House of Representatives, was roundly defeated by a rival who campaigned against her by thundering that Oveta was a "parliamentarian and a Unitarian." It was Oveta's only try for elective office, the only major defeat of her career...
Other officers are: Carl Whittier, vice-president; John Anderson, secretary; and John Kolbjornson, treasurer. All are members of the American Unitarian Association, and Schulman is student assistant minister of the Arlington Street Church...
Inevitably, little Norbert turned out to be something of an infantile monster. Once, when a Latin tutor annoyed him, he turned the garden hose on the fellow. Another time, when his parents sent him to a Unitarian Sunday school to give him some contact with other children, little Atheist Norbert got into debates with the minister on the existence...
...observers even tried to deny that Congress has the right to investigate colleges or anything else it chooses. But several spectators, including Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, Unitarian Dr. A. Powell Davies and the Very Rev. Francis B. Sayre Jr., Dean of Washington Cathedral, cried "foul" at the tactics of the investigators. Despite the continuing uproar, Representative Harold H. Velde and his House Un-American Activities Committee went to work...
...Unitarian. In November the commissioners turned in their report. Pastor Jones, they found, was a force for good in the community. But he had evidently strayed far from the church's doctrines. Furthermore, his church officers, many of them university faculty members, were "generally uninformed" about Presbyterianism. At least one of them "evidently did not believe in a personal God"; another was a declared Unitarian. The philosophy of Pastor Jones's church, as they saw it: "That doctrine is of less importance than whether an individual shall be free to worship God as he pleases...