Word: america
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...CRIMSON, brimming with nostalgia over the discovery of America, will celebrate the holiday by not publishing tomorrow. The University, similarly inclined, will hold no classes...
Schlesinger, who spent last summer in Europe as a special assistant to roving ambassador W. Averill Harriman, reported that although ECA is "an extraordinary undertaking in its desire to revitalize European economy," and although it has met with a "heartening degree of response" from the European people, America must make definite commitments to Western Union...
...closer election day drew, the busier the Department of Justice's antitrust division became. Last week, on the heels of its suit against the Big Four meat packers (TIME, Sept. 27), the trustbusters went after two oldtime targets, the Aluminum Co. of America and E. I. du Pont de Nemours...
Avoiding Graveyards. U.S. Catholics spend $182,250,000 a year to run their church schools. This is America's largest single religious expenditure-and more than any U.S. Protestant denomination spends for all purposes. The total 1947 expenditure of the Methodist Church was only $165,000,000; the second highest in Protestantism, $132,000,000, was raised by the Southern Baptist. Over 9% of the total U.S. scholastic enrollment is in Catholic schools; the figure for elementary schools is nearly...
...Stepinac High last fortnight, Francis Cardinal Spellman of New York, who is U.S. Catholicism's most influential leader, wove into his speech every overtone of the Catholic parochial system. In his first sentence he called the school "the full embodiment of the great and generous spirit that is America." Then he praised the prelate for whom he had named it, Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac* of Yugoslavia, railroaded to jail by Tito in 1946, as "the victim of godless Communism and a martyr to the ideals that Americans revere and cherish. He is the symbol of Peter and Paul...