Word: calvinist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dutch Cabinet maker is old Dr. Hendrikus Colijn. Last week the onetime Dutch "strong man" was sadly planning a round-the-world trip to forget that the last of his five had set the all-time Dutch low by lasting exactly two days and seven hours. Last June Calvinist Dr. Colijn was compelled to resign when his old-fashioned financial and social policies split the coalition between his Anti-Revolutionary Party and the progressive Catholics. After a month of Cabinet stasis Queen Wilhelmina's Favorite was back again with a museum collection of Ministers. The Catholics and Socialists promptly...
Stanchest supporter of Dutch Premier Dr. Hendrikus Colijn is his soverign, Queen Wilhelmina. Dr. Colijn is a devout Calvinist and a churchman who knows his Bible backwards and forwards. Her Majesty is the apotheosis of Protestantism e conservative, strong-willed Premier believes in balanced budgets, light taxes and a strong currency even in these days of cockeyed national finances; this seems the essence of good sense to the thrifty Queen...
...Netherlands electorate does not agree with Her Majesty, however, and the thrifty, devout Calvinist Premier's Anti-Revolutionary Party is outnumbered by both Catholic and Socialist Parties. Dr Colijn has ruled by forming unstable coalitions with the Catholics. Month ago the Cabinet split because the young energetic Catholics wanted to pitch into the unemployment problem with expensive public works and generous relief. This old Dr Colijn could not permit, for the budget was already unbalanced by an extensive armament program. The Cabinet resigned...
...Roman Catholic Church, for instance. American musicology, in the person of Carleton Sprague Smith, is making an attempt to revive another little known type of church music, the psalm tunes of early America. In his lecture at Paine Hall last Friday he began a discussion of the 17th Century Calvinist setting of these psalms. Mr. Smith, who is by no means a stuffy musical archaeologist, is as amusing as he is instructive. Next Friday he will continue his plea for the return of this charming music to the position which it lost to the sentimental hymns of the last century...
...cool-headed doctor who not only wrote a medical classic on puerperal fever, but occasionally, as in Elsie Venner, anticipated Freud; the science popularizer whose Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table came nearer to Darwin than to the Transcendentalists; the author of The Professor, the awkward but potent anti-Calvinist Babbitt...