Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this day the hosts of labor shout their hosannas. It is a demonstration of a better age, a more chivalrous time, when labor shall be honored and well-rewarded...
...Beck's heir apparent, Teamsters' Central Conference Boss Jimmy Hoffa, who was unable to "recollect" teaming with a union-busting racketeer to defeat the work of his own union. Beck, Hoffa and dozens of similar stripe were precious poor exhibits for Peter McGuire's better age and more chivalrous time...
...would win a majority or merely a plurality was the real question). The man most determined to erase any doubt was peppery, spartan Chancellor Adenauer himself. By motorcar and by special, five-car diesel train, Konrad Adenauer was campaigning with the verve and enthusiasm of a man half his age, and the knowledge that his age is one of the few effective arguments his opponents have against him. In Celle, citizens looked on delightedly while Adenauer skipped up the steps of city hall, his coattails flying behind him. At another rally he cracked: "They...
...FREEDOM TO REFORM THE CHURCH: The church in every age must undergo reformation and "boldly face the mass of revolutionary facts of her time. Among these are anti-Christian ideologies, political turmoil, social ruthlessness, ethical relativism ... In this situation the Church cannot be content with timid lamentations...
This observance of St. Bartholomew's Day has grown year by year since 1937, when it was started by Abbe Paul Couturier, an ex-schoolteacher who had found his vocation as priest at the age of 56. Until his death in 1953, grey, scholarly Abbe Couturier devoted himself to encouraging understanding and cooperation among churches. He once succeeded in persuading a Catholic missionary magazine to devote an entire issue to the work of Protestant missions...