Word: civility
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Former Vice-President Marshall, a member of the United States Coal Commission in charge of investigation of civil rights in the coal fields, has been invited to send a representative to Logan to observe the test...
Mussolini declares that he has no prejudices against women. But while admitting their right to take part in the political and civil life of the country-he does not believe that the time has come for granting them suffrage...
Italy is engaged in suppressing rebel forces in Tripolitania (Tripoli Italiana); there is a state of civil war in South Ireland; General Wu's forces are fighting the Military Governor of Szechwan in Western China; the French and Germans are snarling at each other in a war of attrition in the Ruhr; trouble has again broken out over the Polish- Lithuanian boundary...
...contravening the doctrines of their church, and were found guilty by the Baltimore Conference that same year. Thereupon all the Conferences of the Methodist Churches in the southern states seceded and formed " The Methodist Episcopal Church, South," which has endured until now. They held that slavery was a civil and not a religious issue. During the Civil War, Lincoln said of the Methodist Church in the North that it " sent more soldiers into the field, more nurses to the hospitals, and more prayers to heaven than...
Many attempts at reunion since the Civil War have failed. But the Con- ference of the Methodist Episcopal Church held in Des Moines, in 1920, appointed a committee on reunion, and asked the Southern Methodists to do the same. The two committees have worked out a plan which will abolish the word " south" from " Methodist Episcopal Church, South," incorporate the two branches of the church into one legal body, appoint one General Conference, and two Jurisdictional Conferences, one north and one south. The General Conference is to be supreme...