Word: sabbaths
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Instead of telling them about modern drama she urged them to write letters of protest to New Jersey authorities. Many gallantly complied, including Professor William Lyon Phelps. Other letters came from President Jonn Grier Hibben of Princeton University; the Lord's Day Alliance, the Woman's National Sabbath Alliance, the Humane Society of New York, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals...
...band, returning to its post, halts, "Sounds Off" again, and, because this is Sunday, breaks into "Nearer My God to Thee" so that all and sundry may realize this is the Sabbath. The buglers sound "Retreat" and the sunset gun barks. Kaydets snicker as the cits jump at the report. The battalion come to attention and then to "Present Arms" as the National Anthem is played. Then the adjutant publishes the orders, officers and guidons go front and center and the Corps passes in review...
...begin the Fast of Ab. Edward Keith-Roach, British district commissioner of Jerusalem, knew this was going on. He ordered admonishing posters prepared and had them fixed to walls. The work was done on Thursday so as not to offend Moslems by having Moslem employes work on Friday, their Sabbath, or by having Jews work on Saturday, their sabbath. His own sabbath, Sunday, was nerve-wracking for him. He was on tip-toe all that day, expecting outbreaks from almost any part of the city...
...Colyumist Coolidge will observe two self-imposed limitations: he will write no story on the Sabbath; he will not heckle President Hoover...
...flown over to Le Touquet for a round of golf on Sunday. Last week they drafted and sent this telegram: WE RESPECTFULLY SUGGEST THAT YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS COULD SET A HIGHER EXAMPLE TO YOUR FUTURE LOYAL SUBJECTS BY REFRAINING FROM ENCOURAGING THE DESECRATION OF THE SABBATH...