Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Matthew A. Dunn, 55, blind, humanity-loving Congressman from Pennsylvania (1933-41); in Pittsburgh. He once offered a jobs-for-everybody proposal which called for an appropriation...
Those who believe it is "vital that we take no thought for the morrow" are as blind as the selfish senators of 1920 who savagely ripped the staging from under Wilson's plans and let the whole structure of Versailles collapse like a house of cards. The trouble with 1920 was that the obsolete principles of Washington's Farewell Address still guided the thinking of our leaders. The universities are to blame for projecting these principles into the post...
...present state of national unity into a false state of security. The type of criticism we are now witnessing is healthy democratic criticism. Every one, motivated by a high and common ideal, is taking care that his opinions be guided by this common interest. But this should not blind us to the fact that three short months ago we were still in the throes of a war debate in which it was common to refer to your opponent as a traitor, a Nazi, or a war-monger...
...room and tell the facts even if they shame our own nation. One of the purposes of such a streamlined program is to show that we as a nation are far from infallible, that, in large part, we are responsible for the present holocaust. "We have been just as blind as any of those broken peoples. We merely had better luck--the luck of geography and distance" is a typical blast coming from an up-to-date Army lecture...
...world know more about missions than Dr. Mott. Their indefatigable booster, he has never been a blind optimist about them. In 1930 a talk he made to a lay group called together by John D. Rockefeller Jr. (who put up the requisite $675,000) led to the Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry and resulted in the much-debated Re-Thinking Missions-probably the severest appraisal of missions churchmen have ever penned...