Word: devoutness
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...Washington, an Associated lobbyist once declared: "I've been told by physicians that if he ever developed a sore throat he would choke to death." However, the fact that this year Mr. Hopson has spent only a month in his Manhattan office is probably traceable to a devout desire to dodge process servers. Among Associated suits now pending are a mail-fraud case and a stockholders' action to recover some $1,000,000 allegedly milked from the system by a Hopson personal holding company. In announcing their chief's resignation, Associated said that Mr. Hopson would retain...
...trying to realize the Nazi dream of a perfect "Totalitarian State," Adolf Hitler has notably failed to bring to heel Germany's devout Protestant pastors and their congregations. So thoroughly has the Nazi Reich Bishop, blustering onetime Army Chaplain Luclwig Miiller, been frustrated in his efforts to dragoon these pastors into the State's German Christian Church, that last week Realmleader Hitler's only recourse was to try a finesse. His Minister of Church Affairs, Hans Kerrl. dispatched an emissary to a meeting of the opposition pastors' Prussian Confessional Synod at Berlin. Surprisingly, he offered...
Burt J. (for nothing) Denman, 59, nervous, energetic vice president & general manager of United Light & Power Co., has an office in Chicago's Bankers Building, lives in suburban Wilmette. A devout Methodist, he has been vice chairman of the trustees of Garrett Biblical Institute and a pillar of First Church in Evanston. Burt Denman has lately had cause to wonder about Methodism. In Hearst-papers he has seen its preachers attacked as Reds. In Methodist journals like Zion's Herald and the chain of Advocates he has read editorials criticizing businessmen, bankers and especially utilitarians like himself...
After pious rejoicing at the Prophetic Bible Institute and devout singing of Our God, Our Help in Ages Past, Messiah Aberhart announced that he was ready to accept the call to be Alberta's Premier, declared: "It has been a revolution not of bullets but of ballots...
There was also sudden talk in Moscow last week of establishing nondenominational U. S. Protestant churches in Russia. This, Bolshevik leaders seemed to feel, would help President Roosevelt shush devout U. S. critics of his failure to protest up to last week the broken Soviet pledge. Correspondents were told that all U. S. Protestants have to do is supply the money and they can have a church in Moscow...