Word: christian
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Union. In Houston, Texas, the Women's Christian Temperance Union closed its convention with resolutions against all critics of President Hoover, scofflaw cinemas, hip flasks. It warned both parties to choose Bone-Dry Candidates in future...
Herald. In Manhattan, Editor Stanley Hoflund High of the Christian Herald (monthly) assured members of the Anti-Saloon League: "The fate of Prohibition will be the fate of President Hoover...
Century. Editor Charles Clayton Morrison of the Christian Century (weekly) decided that his magazine was unique, that every Dry in the U.S. should buy it, look to it for leadership...
Such an army swept down on the city of Kianfu, Kiangsi province last week. Kianfu boasts a Christian cathedral. From it the bandits kidnapped three French nuns, two priests: one French, one Chinese. The whites were prudently held for $20,000 ransom apiece. Nobody seemed likely to pay $20,000 for a Chinaman. While the nuns gasped Pater Nosters through stiff white lips, Father Paul Cheng was led before them to the cathedral steps, brutally beheaded...
Died. Dr. Ebenezer Johnson Foster, 83, adopted at the age of 41 by Mary Baker Eddy, Christian Science founder; in Waterbury, Center, Vt, where he was the last surviving Civil War veteran. Although an able physician he never practiced after taking up Christian Science...