Word: belief
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most controversial section was a gabled compromise decorated with the principle of civil rights: "We have implemented our often-expressed belief that racial and religious minorities have the right to live, develop, and vote equally with all citizens." To this was appended a Southern balustrade: an affirmation of the right of individual states to make their own laws...
...Communist, Reporter Tom Buchanan was fired by the Washington Star. The Washington local of the American Newspaper Guild refused to go to bat for him (TIME, June 28). Last week, at its annual convention in San Francisco, the A.N.G. overwhelmingly (273 to 18⅓) reversed the Washington local ("Political belief [alone is not] just and sufficient grounds for discharge"), and urged the local to try to get Buchanan's job back...
...Hildebrand's son Henry, 40, spoke for the others: "We must do something to keep our way of life. Children don't believe as their fathers did. They drift to the cities. Some follow the trades, even become lawyers, which is forbidden in our belief. We want to live as the Bible taught...
Last week blood did run. A mob of 3,000, whipped on by Kashani and other mullahs, gathered outside the Majlis building. There they tangled with police and soldiers. Some demonstrators acted on a Persian belief that the barefooted are the fleetest; they shed their slippers and scampered for safety, a slipper tucked under each arm. Among the demonstrators and troops, one was killed, 70 wounded. The Majlis meeting was canceled...
...Lever House in Cambridge, Mass., Luckman practices his belief that the best management makes the big plans, delegates their execution. He has surrounded himself with a "first team" of six new, youngish vice presidents. Says Boss Luckman: "They carry the ball. All I do is call the signals...