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...medals and decorations of the late Sir John Cowans, Quartermaster General of the British Army during the war, were offered for sale by order of Sir John's executors, despite Lady Cowans' protest. The proceeds were to pay his debts...
...late Stuyvesant Fish reported in favor of reducing the number of hours. In 1921 Judge Gary said: " We expect to make the elimination of the twelve-hour day complete during the next year." But the recent adverse report of the Iron and Steel Institute, according to the protest of the indignant churches, "shatters public confidence...
...attempted justification is made on grounds of economic necessity, the shortage of labor and the fact that a shorter shift would force up the price of steel. The strongest argument of the churches is that economic laws "cannot demand an equal position with the laws of justice." The protest concludes: "A further report is due from the Iron and Steel Institute?a report of a very different tenor." How soon the "report of a different tenor" will be issued Is unknown. Meanwhile the cry goes up: "How long, O Lord...
Historically, American Unitarianism rose in protest against the extreme Calvinism of the Massachusetts theologians. Rhode Island was settled by Baptists; Connecticut, by Thomas Hooker?" liberal" in his theology (1637). For over one hundred years the liberal and the conservative Calvinists remained in the Congregational churches of New England. In 1800, however, in historic old Plymouth, the Unitarians formed a congregation of their own. In 1819. William Ellery Channing set up five points of Unitarianism vs. the five major emphases of Calvinism, and the splitting up of congregations was rapid...
...been accused of destroying the undergraduate morale, of slighting the other departments to the advantage of his own subject, Geography, and in general of exerting a reactionary and negative influence on his college. He has roused the antagonism of prominent members of his faculty, as their recent formal protest showed; the Commencement Exercises revealed the antipathy of the students; and his unfortunate act of stopping the Scott Nearing talk a year ago roused the disfavor of fair-minded people throughout the country. Yet there are no indications that his term is to be ended...