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...economy by reducing the expenses for the armed forces would make me extremely unhappy, for the economy might prove a costly one. It was tragic enough that the boys whose fathers were World War I veterans did have to fight another horrible war. Let not history repeat itself! Amen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 24, 1947 | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

...Lord, please don't let any American newspaper people ever forget the statement of Wilbur F. Storey, setting forth the aims of the old Chicago Times in 1861: 'It is a newspaper's duty to print the news, and raise hell.' Amen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Postscript | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

...workers from The Optimist's Good Morning, a devotional hand-me-down from the late John D. Rockefeller. One of her favorite passages begins: "With this new day, O God, let some new strength be mine." The staff of the National Council of Negro Women says a fervent amen. Though she was 71 last week, Mary Bethune still runs them ragged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Matriarch | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

...blood, who kill. God . . . look into our hearts and Thou willst find love, enthusiasm, readiness for sacrifice. . . . Poland, freed from the swastika, has been captured by the hammer and sickle. Dachau and Buchenwald have been replaced by Siberian ice. . . . Poland will rise from the dead, so help us God! Amen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: You Cannot Shoot Us All | 6/17/1946 | See Source »

...Methodist Church . . .used to be full of Pentecostal fire, and [its] public worship was filled with shouts of 'Amen' and 'Hallelujah.' Now the Nazarene and Pentecostal preachers often say that if the Methodists were as Pentecostal as they used to be, they would be glad to be Methodists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Halleluhah! Praise the Lord! | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

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