Word: gamaliel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Will people be shocked in the year 2014 by the cliche-crammed love letters from a U.S. President to a married woman? Not until then will the public get a peek at the more than 250 letters that Warren Gamaliel Harding wrote between 1909 and 1920 to Mrs. Carrie Phillips, wife of a department store owner in Marion, Ohio. Harding Biographer Francis Russell discovered the correspondence in 1963, but Harding's heirs sued to block publication, and now it has been agreed to immure the letters in the Library of Congress for the next 42 years. By that time...
When Christians first began spreading their strange new doctrines in 1st century Jerusalem, Rabbi Gamaliel urged the Jews to be lenient and to avoid accusing them of heresy. If the new sect was doing God's will, he reasoned, men could not stop them (Acts 5:34). When Christians held power in the Middle Ages, they often ignored this common-sense approach. Heresy became an all-too-common crime punishable by all-too-painful penalties...