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...gravity of the Communistic threat to our religious, social and civil institutions calls for intelligent, concerted, persevering action.-Rev. Joseph Francis Thorning...
...yeasty intellectual ferment in which U. S. churches today find themselves, such contradictory opinions on the Social Gospel have lately bubbled up to the surface of news. An older generation recalls that its preachers were excited about theology, about the infallibility of the Bible, about the threat of Science. Today most men of God are fascinated with the economic implications of religion. Judged by their pronouncements in print and from the pulpit, a majority of U. S. Protestant pastors broadly believe that a biblical heaven is possible on earth. But their chiliastic utterances are causing them more trouble, and evoking...
...year boosted new car sales, but used-car buyers have apparently clung to their habit of waiting until spring to purchase. Thus used cars have piled up steadily in the hands of dealers, are now 25% to 35% above normal. And spring is still two months away. While the threat of dealer bankruptcy is no greater than usual, there is so much cash tied up in used-car inventories that dealers' ability to buy new cars from manufacturers may soon be impaired...
...tutor, of course, or a tutor who did not understand his duties, might use his power as a threat, make himself a "task-master", and make the system for his tutees "a sort of pedagogical nursery." But there is no reason to suppose this would happen, any more than it happens now with the not insignificant power of tutors in borderline cases...
...Woman of the Year to stately Mrs. George Horace Lorimer, wife of the editor of the Saturday Evening Post. During 1935 busy Mrs. Lorimer helped return grand opera to Philadelphia, sponsored charities, presided over the Republican Women of Pennsylvania, led the Republican Women of Philadelphia in a threat to plant protest potatoes on their front lawns (TIME...