Word: brethren
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comparatively poor, but with extraordinary social prestige and in an extraordinarily strategic political position. High-church Episcopalians pull toward Rome; low-church Episcopalians pull toward the other Protestant sects. An Episcopalian episode of last week showed clearly the sort of obstacle confronting the union of all brethren in Christ...
Harmony at Harvard. While the brethren in Manhattan were quarreling over legalities, some 400 Jews, Roman Catholics and Protestants met in Harvard University's Fogg Art Museum to discuss their differences. The seminar was held under the auspices of the Calvert Round Table, an organization founded "to remove religious prejudice, and to foster among all our people respect for each other's sincere convictions, mutual confidence and good will." Speakers were President Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard University, Rabbi Harry Levi of Boston's Temple Israel, Rev. Father Michael J. Ahern, S. J., of Weston College. Among...
Concluded Advertisingman Klein: "A newspaperman's training-his 'deadline' habit of thinking on his feet-will get him further in a money way in advertising. . . . And why not, brethren? Ask your wives. These newspapermen's wives- almost always superior in brains and breeding to their old school friends riding around in Cadillacs and Studebakers-will tell you that the boys are just trying to believe they're still living in the glamorous...
...Long Island what he would do about Mr. Blackshear. Bishop Stires was pained, but he explained that the Episcopal Church leaves the individual parish practically autonomous. He declined to express any opinion except this: "Personally I have the greatest affection and a warm paternal feeling for our colored brethren...
...small importance. As Superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League of America he inhabits and marches in the boots of the late, mighty Wayne Bidwell Wheeler.* Last week he marched into New Jersey to help the Anti-Saloon League of that State elect a superintendent. Addressing his local brethren he referred to William J. Calhoun, who only a few days before had been made Federal Prohibition Administrator for New Jersey, as follows...