Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other leaders in the Humanist movement, said Religionist Potter, were Irving Babbitt, Walter Lippmann, Paul Elmer More. Evidently he referred to Babbitt's, Lippmann's, More's cultural attitude, not their religious faith. Paul Elmer More, ( philosopher and critic, is a devout Episcopalian. Said he: "I utterly repudiate Potter." Walter Lippmann said: "No connection whatever." Said Irving Babbitt: "His use of word humanism has almost nothing in common with mine...
...Faith, hope and parity. And the greatest of these is parity." ¶ Passed a resolution "demanding" that the U. S. Senate, in view of its quizzing of Big-Navy Propagandist Shearer (see p. 14), investigate also the lobbying of such organizations as the Federal Council of Churches...
...motherhood an act of God? This question, involving all the profundities of metaphysics, faith and physiology might well give pause to anyone, however learned. The answer YES would surely affront countless atheists, agnostics. The answer NO would just as surely anger multitudes of the pious. Yet several men were actually confronted with this question last week and expected to make a public reply...
Despite the seriousness of the situation that faced him, the first few days of Chancellor Schober's administration seemed to justify Vienna's blind faith. Telephoning vigorously, rushing from office building to office building, he completed and published a list of his cabinet within 24 hours, a task that had taken his predecessor Chancellor Streeruwitz three weeks. As a precautionary step against threatened Heimwehr-Schutzbund riots he suspended all military furloughs, ordered all Austrian troops to be ready for immediate action. In Vienna he suppressed an edition of the Communist newspaper Rote Fahne, arrested its editor "for inciting...
...Author. Herbert Asbury, 38, Missouri-born, is a descendant of Bishop Francis Asbury whose biography he has written, who founded the Methodist Church in the U. S. Author Asbury's own deflection from the faith of his ancestors is expressed in the title of another Asbury book: Up from Methodism. His father and five uncles served in the Civil War, himself in the World War. As a Georgian newsgatherer in 1914, he helped pass child labor laws. His study The Gangs of New York has been praised by gangsters themselves. He edited The Bon Vivant's Companion...