Word: belongings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appeared last week in the 1963 Yearbook of American Churches, published by the National Council of Churches. For the first time in a century, the Yearbook reports, the percentage of church members among the general population of the U.S. has decreased. Yearbook figures show that 116,109,929 Americans belong to 258 religious bodies. They represent 63.4% of the population, which is two-tenths of 1% less than the totals recorded a year ago. Both Roman Catholicism, with 42,876,665 members, and Protestantism, with 64,434,966, showed small numerical growths, but the overall population growth was proportionately greater...
Bourguiba is also aware of the muttering of many about the three expensive new palaces he has recently built. These "belong to the state," he retorted in his "I am alive" speech. He added with some bitterness: "There is a tendency to forget that I spent 30 years in French jails for my country...
...chiefly responsible for this negative posture belong to the Roman Curia, the central administrative body of the Catholic Church. Mostly aging Italians quite insulated from the modern world, they have exerted vast influence and control not only on the worldwide church but on the Pope himself. They have usually been satisfied with the church the way it is, and have looked upon any efforts to change it with deep hostility...
Most explicit exponent of the theory is Frederick A. Stahl, president of Manhattan's Standard & Poor's Corp. Argues Stahl: "Businessmen all work and operate in unison. They all belong to the same clubs, so business sentiment is pretty much developed through their exchange of ideas. Everybody was convinced by the President's stand on steel and the market drop that there would be a business recession. They began to adopt policies to protect themselves, such as cutting inventories and dropping unnecessary personnel." In effect, Stahl contends, businessmen took the steps they usually take after a recession...
Calling the act "an outrageous piece of legislation that ought to be repealed." Howe contended that it is inconsistent with the Smith Act, a statute making it a crime to belong to subversive organizations. The Communist party has previously been convicted for violating the Smith...