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...most of the "leading" Protestant denominations. Methodist Hutchinson is not happy about what has replaced it: "A kind of preaching which, at its best, is in direct descent from the ethical insights of the Old Testament prophets, but which too often is diluted from that into something perilously akin to that careful moralism against which the Evangelical Revival revolted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Protestant Half-Century | 4/23/1951 | See Source »

...certainty as to whether there will be any colleges at all once draft quotas really begin to pinch the local boards. If Congress does not specify a uniform draft policy for the nation, but merely renews the local option provisions of the present bill, there will be something akin to chaos in American colleges within the next year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Patchwork Policy | 12/14/1950 | See Source »

Three weeks ago something akin t panic spread through Sun Life's Montreal citadel ("Largest office building in th British Empire"). Montreal's financial district in St. James Street buzzed with rumors that the Aliens and allied U.S speculators had gobbled up 35% of Sun Life's stock. Out to Sun Life's Canadian stockholders went frantic telephone pleas from company officers not to sell, to "keep this fine old Canadian company Canadian." At the Dominion Insurance Office's behest, Canadian Finance Minister Douglas Abbott took one step to repel the invaders. He announced last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INSURANCE: Border Raid | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

Shame on your article on Puerto Ricans. It is evident that TIME was looking for a sensational type of journalism akin to the Daily News. Your publication, about the only one in New York that has not tried to degrade a long-suffering people, has at last put in its two cents of cowardice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 3, 1950 | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

Russell's column, which appeared last January, did not condemn the A.A.U.P., however. It did say that professors were akin to "hired hands" and that the A.A.U.P. resembled a trade union more than an association of scholars...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 3 Professors Dismissed At Washington College | 6/20/1950 | See Source »

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