Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Birrell was outraged about the U.S. effort to bring him home. "Some American authorities will try to get Brazilians to violate their own constitution and laws. Just to get at me. That's not diplomatic. Some day, I'll go back home. I certainly won't let those charges go unanswered. But I'll answer them at my own convenience, not at the convenience of some parasitic public official...
JESUS OUSTED BY CHURCHES IN MERGING. Under this eye-catching headline the Austin (Texas) American reported the labor pains of a new denomination: the Unitarian Universalist Association. Meeting separately and simultaneously in Syracuse, N.Y., representatives of the American Unitarian Association (membership: 108,396) and the Universalist Church of America (membership: 68,949) agreed last week to unite. But though neither of the creedless sects officially accepts the divinity of Jesus (except as all men participate in divinity), the Man from Nazareth managed to give them a hard time...
...made available by the Rockefellers. The National Council is pulling itself together from eight different locations in Manhattan to occupy four floors. Other large-scale tenants: the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (more than three floors), the Methodist Church (three floors), the Reformed Church in America, and the American Baptist Convention (one floor each). The Protestant Episcopal Church is planning to put up its own office building elsewhere in the city...
...Legislative Oversight in Washington, Max Hess, owner of a department store in Allentown, Pa., said that at least four leading newspaper columnists had been paid $1,000 each by his store for making "good will" visits. The newsmen: Hearst Headline Service's Columnist Bob Considine, New York Journal-American's TV Critic Jack O'Brian, the San Francisco Chronicle's Stanton Delaplane, and Associated Press Columnist Hal Boyle...
...Said Delaplane, who also wrote a complimentary piece after his Allentown visit: "His [i.e., Hess's] office did pay my expenses of $1,000 to travel to Allentown for the story." Said Boyle: "I have mentioned Hess four times on subjects of feature-news interest." Only the Journal-American's O'Brian spurned his benefactor: he mentioned neither Hess nor the store in his column until Nov. 3, when he broke the story of Hess's having paid $10,000 to get a contestant on a TV quiz show for publicity purposes...