Word: theophilus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME, June 28). The government then rescinded Field Marshal Smuts's order forbidding members of two antiSemitic, ultranationalist organizations-Ossewa Brandwag and the Afrikaner Broederbond-to hold civil service positions. The Broederbond, of which Prime Minister Malan is a member and his Minister of the Interior, Dr. Theophilus Dönges, vice chairman, is now the real ruler of the Union of South Africa. The sinister secret society controls a good two-thirds of the government members of Parliament...
Oklahoma, trying to cling to Jim Crow and still satisfy the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Sipuel case (TIME, Jan. 26), had set up a "separate but equal" law school for Negroes in Oklahoma City. Only one student-Theophilus M. Roberts, a waiter at the Oklahoma Club-enrolled. Negro leaders in the segregation fight boycotted the school (so did Ada Sipuel) and turned the heat on Roberts. Last week, he quit without ever having cracked a book. Said he: "I've bucked the Church, the fraternal organizations and the man in the street. The pressure...
...Five, which have gone through a number of changes in ownership, now are: Alexander & Baldwin, Ltd. (founded by two missionaries' sons); C. Brewer & Co., Ltd. (founded by a New England trader, James Hunnewell); Theo. H. Davies & Co., Ltd. (founded by Theophilus Davies, of England); American Factors, Ltd. (founded by Captain Henry Hackfeld of Germany); and Castle & Cooke, Ltd. (founded by missionaries...
White-haired, deep-eyed old Metropolitan Theophilus, 73, head of the American church, refuses to grant Moscow's Patriarch even spiritual authority. "I wouldn't trust any Bolshevik," he mutters. But not all North American bishops share his contempt for the Patriarch's difficult and dangerous game of pattycake with the Kremlin. Explained handsome, popular young Bishop John of Brooklyn last week...
...considered leftist. When Rainey was fired, three years ago, Frank Dobie told a Kiwanis meeting that "no self-respecting, able member of the present faculty would serve as president. But the regents will have no trouble finding a bootlicker or a quisling...." A few days later, the regents named Theophilus Shickel Painter, a mild-mannered zoology professor, as president. Governor Coke Stevenson told the regents that, if he were one of them, he would fire Dobie "without batting...