Word: workingmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Homer Martin was called to the pulpit of small Leeds Baptist Church on the outskirts of Kansas City. Most of his 400 parishioners were employes of the nearby Chevrolet plant, but a few were employers. At them Preacher Martin hammered Sunday after Sunday with his gospel of justice for workingmen. He protested publicly against the 75?-per-day wages which some members of his flock were paying, invited labor organizers to speak from his pulpit. Irate deacons soon gave him a choice of quitting his agitating or quitting his pulpit. He quit the latter, went to work for Chevrolet...
...laid down detailed rules for "retreats" in his Spiritual Exercises, and St. Charles (Cardinal) Borromeo established retreat houses in his archdiocese of Milan. Since the 17th Century annual retreats have been customary and obligatory for all Catholic priests. Since 1882, when a French Jesuit named Pere Henry pioneered among workingmen to revive the custom of attending them, retreats have steadily gained favor among pious laymen...
...hotter issue: Academic Freedom. Keynoter Newlon and his colleagues made delegates feel that the abstract cause of Academic Freedom was their own concrete cause against arbitrary superintendents, corrupt school boards. Professor John Kelley Norton tickled fancies with a proposal that the nation's teachers unite with parents and workingmen of goodwill to hold the national balance of political power. In that Coughlinesque idea the scary Denver Post professed to see the birth of "the Pedagogic Party . . . through which Columbia University of New York aspires to control and run the whole United States...
Russia in 1905 had apparently disintegrated. Her enormous and far-famed army had been repeatedly crushed by the highly organized yellow ants of Japan; her navy had been sunk by these same ants, unexpectedly become amphibious. In Moscow and St. Petersburg masses of stolid workingmen had become sufficiently aroused to barricade the streets and force the government to abandon, in an orgy of ambiguity, its autocratic insolence, if not the autocracy itself...
...wins the fiancee of Schultz, his money-grabbing, plagiarizing fellow musician, he ends in poverty, while Schultz cavorts in the salons of Europe. But there is no doubt in the minds of the audience that Egor will find appreciation for his realistic compositions in the revolt of the workingmen. Fortunately there is only one shot of troops ruthlessly suppressing revolution and that is well-done through suggestion...