Word: brotherhoods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other grievances. "Indeed," it said, "an apology is due the Guamanians for the long delay and they are also entitled to the Nation's thanks and recognition for their heroic service rendered during the recent war. The people are in all respects worthy of being welcomed into full brotherhood of the United States...
...Wallace (to whom you refer as "the Messianic windbag") is speaking in the interests of world brotherhood [TIME, April 21]. What should be more natural, more desired, than that he should carry his message abroad to all parts of the world? . . . This is no time for narrow nationalism. Civilization hangs in the balance. If the future proves a growing organism, and we find ourselves making great strides toward a better expression of life on earth, coming generations can give thanks that we heeded the Christian philosophy Mr. Wallace represents. If civilization declines to an era similar to the Dark Ages...
...long enough," cried Vandenberg last week at a Pan American Day celebration in Washington. ". . . By every rule of righteousness [Canada] is eligible to this association. ... I would welcome the final and total New World unity which will be nobly dramatized when the 22nd chair is filled and our continental brotherhood is complete from the Arctic Circle to Cape Horn...
...world's fattest trade union, facing a major crisis, last week showed no more solidarity than a flock of peacocks in a thunderstorm. India's Chamber of Princes (an undisciplined brotherhood of rajas, maharajas and nawabs, with a stray Gaekwar and Holkar) held its annual conference in Bombay's Taj Mahal Hotel. The princes looked out over the bay and pondered a prospect that many a union man has faced before-technological unemployment...
Religion is not the "brotherhood of man." The Golden Rule is a necessary but not a sufficient description of man's religious duty. Although almost all the great religions prescribe some variant of the Golden Rule, none of them relies on it exclusively. In the four Gospels Jesus speaks several times about the brotherhood of man, but he speaks of the Fatherhood of God just three times as often. Without that Fatherhood, man's efforts to live by the light of altruism have always landed him in its dark opposite...