Word: humanistic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Uncle Yusuke fired her imagination with tales of Lincoln, Joan of Arc, Florence Nightingale. When Shidzué, at 18, was married, she found that her husband was far more deeply dissatisfied with feudal customs and restraints than she had been. Head of a wealthy and powerful family, a Christian humanist, young Baron Ishimoto became a mining engineer, took his inexperienced bride to the grimy coal fields of western Japan. There they lived for two and a half years on an equal footing with other employes, housed in a miserable thatched hut, on the Baron's salary...
...quietly collapsed in the New York State Legislature (TIME, Jan. 14). At a committee hearing last month plenty of opponents showed up but only the National Catholic Welfare Conference went on record for the measure and then only by sending the committee a letter. Dr. Charles Francis Potter, Manhattan humanist, helped laugh the bill to death by pointing out that its provision against a person exposing his body in the presence of two or more persons of the opposite sex, similarly exposed, would make it illegal for a woman to give birth to twin boys...
Luis Quintanilla, 39, muralist, etcher, humanist and Spanish Republican, held his first one-man show in the U. S. last week. Pierre Matisse was his sponsor, Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos his patrons and apologists. On the sober walls of the Matisse Gallery 39 of Quintanilla's etchings were lined up, all handsomely mounted and glassed. Critics, collectors, and ladies in long mink coats all hurried up to see them. But Luis Quintanilla was not excited. In Madrid behind the bars of the Central Prison he was fighting for his life...
...Latter Day Saints, 11; Swedenborgian, 7; Ethical Culture, 7; Dutch Reformed, 7; Evangelical Church, 5; Church of Brethren, 6; Community Church, 4; Buddhist, 4; Seventh Day Adventists, Russian Orthodox, Union Church, Hindu, Moslem, two each; Calvary Reformed, Church of God, Free Church, Federated Church, Mennonite, Orthodox, Calvinist, Modern Humanist, Liberal, Buchanan, Albanian Orthodox, Moravian Universalist, Disciples of Christ, Christendom, Pentecostal, one each...
...Forster-Harcourt, Brace ($3). Full-length biography of a great scholar-humanist, by the author of A Passage to India...