Word: christians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when Calvin Coolidge was President, silence was golden. Using nothing but silence, John Christian Lodge, grand-uncle of Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, was elected Mayor of Detroit. Now that Herbert Hoover is President, silence is still fashionable, but not so popular. Neither is Col. Lindbergh. And Mayor Lodge, still using silence as his chief campaign trick, ran third last week in Detroit's mayoralty primary. The leader: John W. Smith, mayor before Lodge...
Married. Robert W. Daniel, president of Liberty National Bank in New York (Manhattan), and Mrs. Charlotte Bemiss Christian, niece of the late John Skelton Williams, onetime (1914-21) Comptroller of the Currency; at Richmond, Va. When the Titanic rammed an iceberg and sank in 1913, he rescued and later married Mrs. Lucien P. Smith, wife of onetime Representative Smith of West Virginia, who drowned in the disaster...
...important blocks to the carrying out of liquor prevention enforcement is the attitude of the press. If the majority of the newspapers should tell the truth, the attitude of a great proportion of the people would be greatly changed. If more sheets such as the Christian Science Monitor and a few others should stick to facts, this problem could be far more successfully attacked...
...souls living in this age? It is only a worshipping, teaching, practicing, creative church whose members are prepared to mark themselves off from all outsiders by a different manner of life affecting all their financial, domestic, civic and social relations, forcing them into constant protest against the present sub-Christian* order and making them ready to dare all for Christ's sake...
...referred to as Peping, was Yenching. Last fortnight many a U.S. educator and tourist, including John D. Rockefeller III, many a Chinese educator and student, traveled a few miles beyond the walls of Peping, witnessed the dedicatory ceremonies of Yenching University. Formed in 1917 by the consolidation of several Christian colleges, Yenching University represents the greatest single expression of U. S. educational philanthropy abroad...