Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Representing the Congregational Christian Churches, the Disciples of Christ, the Evangelical and Reformed Church, the Methodist Church, the African Methodist Episcopal and African Methodist Episcopal Zion Churches, the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (Southern), the International Council of Community Churches, and the Association for a United Church in America...
Interrogation disclosed that the freedom Mr. Gamba was seeking was freedom from his wife, a deliverance that the courts of New York state had denied him for some seven years. Perhaps his case seems small when matched against the problems of Koreans, South African natives and Eastern Europeans. But who is to say that among these less fortunate groups are thousands to whom freedom can only mean what it does to Mr. Gamba? There may well be myriads for whom dissolution of marital bond would mean far more than breaking the shackles of political servitude and economic slavery...
...demands for other cabinet changes went unfulfilled. Old Battler Ernie Bevin had become too ill to carry on the burden of Britain's foreign affairs. And a barrage of criticism was hitting War Secretary John Strachey, who, as Minister of Food, had made a complete failure of the African groundnuts scheme, which was designed to get cooking fat for austerity Britain. Even the Labor government had to admit last week that the scheme had failed, at a dead loss to the British taxpayer of $109 million. There was no reason to believe that Strachey would be any better...
...matchless enthusiasm. Even sweeter to a professional soldier, perhaps, was the respect that he inspired in his enemies. Winston Churchill praised him in the House of Commons while Rommel was in the act of driving the British helter-skelter across North Africa. In the midst of the great North African campaign, General (now Field Marshal) Auchinleck acknowledged the Rommel legend in a general order to his troops: he warned them against believing that Rommel was a magician with supernatural powers...
...leader of the ecumenical movement in the U.S., Brooklyn-born Yaleman Sherrill seemed a natural choice to head the new superagency. Vice presidents at large: Mildred McAfee Horton, World War II commander of the WAVES, onetime (1936-49) president of Wellesley College; Abbie Clement Jackson, executive secretary of the African Episcopal Zion Church Women's Home and Foreign Missionary Society; Dr. McGruder Ellis Sadler, president of Texas Christian University; and the University of Pennsylvania's President Harold Stassen. Treasurer: General Electric's President Charles E. Wilson. As operating head, with the title of general secretary, the delegates...