Word: brotherhoods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...name of Humanity, do something for the needy people of Europe! We, the American people, have gone on record repeatedly as believing in the Brotherhood of Man, in man's right to Freedom from Want-remember...
...showed up in person on Staten Island, where his administration is starting a $5 million project for converting Army barracks into temporary housing for veterans. Wearing his inevitable Homburg with the preciseness of a toy soldier, he accepted an honorary membership in the A.F. of L.'s United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners, thereupon took six hammer strokes to drive the first nail into a two-by-four. The resulting picture looked for all the world like candidate-with-Indian or candidate-with-dead-fish, only a little better...
...optimistic), of the recent election ("with any kind of organization we could have won 20 more seats"), of his own sobersided career ("It's the result that counts, not the figure you cut while you're getting there"). He quoted Burns and the Bible and discussed the brotherhood...
...Clothes. As further innovation, the Vatican last week said that the Pope had decided to abandon the usual custom of holding the consistory in private. To show that world brotherhood was both necessary and attainable, the ceremony would be held in St. Peter's. Thus on Feb. 18 spectators would see cardinals from the 19 nations-including French and German-publicly embrace in accordance with ritual and exchange the "kiss of peace...
...Toyama's words: 'Send us missionaries. We need them. But tell your people to send us men who are not so much concerned as to whether or not we smoke or dance. Send us men who have a message of internationalism through Christian brotherhood, whose devotion is to truth and love, not passing fads and fancies...