Word: righteousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King Edward's most intimate friends state with the utmost positiveness that he is very deeply and sincerely enamored of Mrs. Simpson, that his love is a righteous affection, and that almost immediately after the Coronation he will take her as his consort...
...utterly failed to abolish war, and Christianity must come to the rescue or civilization and the church will perish from the earth!'' Bishop Irving Peake Johnson of Colorado disagreed. Said he: "It is impossible for the church to alter political systems. . . . The church exists to produce righteous people and that is a Herculean task." Gloomily observed Chicago's Bishop George Craig Stewart, host to the Congress: "A moral collapse is engulfing mankind . . . unification of Christian forces alone will destroy the enemies of civilization." The Congress closed day after all the bishops had gone to the Northwestern-Ohio...
...Researcher Thomas Steele Holden that U. S. building construction in 1936 will be 50 or 60% greater than last year, members of the U. S. Building & Loan League, in convention at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, made what, for them, was a fine concession to Public Housing. They nodded righteous approval to a report which suggested: "If a substantial number of families cannot pay an economic rent, we recommend that the Government extend rent relief or rent subsidy, rather than follow the course of building and permanently renting to a group of citizens public accommodations...
...rule has been made as a means of insurance against Boston public opinion or the sensationalism of that city's press, the self-righteous authorities responsible for it have sadly missed the boat. The most embarrassing of Harvard scandals in recent years, the Dunster House affair of last autumn and the subsequent tragedy at Winthrop, occurred when the rooms were teeming with numerous guests of both sexes...
Divine has organized a "Righteous Government Movement" with a political platform demanding that doctors guarantee cures, "Peace" be substituted for "Hello" as a telephone salutation, life insurance be abolished. Father Divine habitually ends his letters: "This leaves ME Well, Healthy, Joyful, Peaceful, Lively, Loving, Successful, Prosperous and Happy in Spirit, Body and Mind and in every organ, muscle, sinew, vein and bone and even in every atom, fiber and cell of MY bodily form...