Word: writs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...diehard, militant Fundamentalists, led by Dr. Clarence E. Macartney of Philadelphia, who interpret Holy Writ literally; insist that all Presbyterians shall thus interpret it; and put a candidate into the field to combat a supposed menace to the "historic, blood-bought standards of the Presbyterian Church...
...Good Friday, Archbishop John S. Kedrovsky of the Russian Orthodox Church, warily approached his Cathedral of St. Nicholas in Manhattan. He had been thrown out bodily. With him this time were lawyers, police reserves and a legal writ which, by civil court umpiring, gave him title to his See and Seat, made him chief over more than 1,000,000 Russian Orthodox communicants and some 300 churches. His assumption of his religious duties had been thwarted by three years of bickering with Metropolitan Platon Rojdevensky (TIME, Dec. 7 et ante...
Last week the Federal Judge granted her a writ of habeas corpus, releasing her from the grip of the immigration service and allowing her to go undisturbed about business or pleasure in the U. S. The fact which induced him to release her was simply that adultery is not a crime in South Africa...
Vera, Countess Cathcart, wearing a green felt hat, faced a judge of the U. S. District Court last week in Manhattan. She was appealing for a writ of habeas corpus to release her from the clutches of U. S. immigration officials...
America and Australia have already openly declared their closed-door policy in so far as the Asiatics are concerned. This superiority complex is no more a matter of private behavior, but is writ large in the laws of their lands...