Word: fundamentalist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...without other ambitions. Our minds recoil from such fearful eventualities, and the laws of a Christian civilization will prevent them. But might not lopsided creatures of this type fit in well with the Communist doctrines of Russia?" Aggressively conservative, Winston Churchill's desk-poundings will please many a Fundamentalist in politics. But the next moment with absent-minded effrontery he is apt to give away a point to the enemy: "Democratic governments drift along the line of least resistance, taking short views, paying their way with sops and doles and smoothing their way with pleasant-sounding platitudes. Never...
...heckled me, and I didn't like it. They threatened me with a subpena. I got fighting mad and have been fighting ever since." At Yale (Class of 1924) Candidate Chappie gained publicity as a "radical." In Wisconsin he campaigned lustily in & out of the State as a Republican fundamentalist. He flayed the La Follettes as "political racketeers." He excoriated ambitious Dr. Glenn Frank's University of Wisconsin as a hotbed of Communism, free love and atheism, with a faculty of "pinks." He was out to rescue the State from Socialism. A roaring reactionary, he battled those who "would poison...
Died. Rev. Dr. Henry Chapman Swearingen, 63, of St. Paul, onetime moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly; of heart disease; aboard a train near Hastings, Neb. As a result of the Modernist-Fundamentalist controversy, he was appointed chairman of a special commission of 15 in 1925 "to study the causes of unrest in the denomination." Later he headed a commission investigating marriage, divorce and remarriage...
...report was signed by John Abner Marquis, onetime (1916) Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A., many Presbyterians heartily disapproved. Last week the Presbyterian General Assembly met in Denver with Philadelphia's Rev. H. McAllister Griffiths and a corps of Fundamentalists on the warpath. Declaring that full time should be taken to consider "the weighty question of whether we wish to continue participation" in the Federal Council, Fundamentalist Griffiths opened the fight by trying to prevent approval of a $14,500 appropriation for participation in Council affairs. Failing in this, he rallied...
...delegates to a conference of Young Theologians. News of them reached the U. S. last week. They discussed their attempts to rescue the Modern Man. Chief feature of the conference was a one-act play presented by the British delegates, in which the Modern Man is approached by a Fundamentalist with an enormous Bible, a pompous Anglo-Catholic, a cordial member of the Buchman Groups, a Modernist who cuts most of his Bible into little bits. None succeeds in rousing Modern Man from his sleep. At last comes a Barthian. He is successful...