Word: christe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...investigate every complaint of wrongdoing on the part of State officials. He hotly denied that as Lieutenant Governor he had been "a mere rubberstamp" for Governor Leche and begged the people not to condemn the entire State Government just because a few irregularities had turned up. Bellowed he: "Jesus Christ had twelve men and one of them turned...
...will be, the Handbook does not attempt to say. It estimates that there are 1,000,000 pacifists in the U. S.-on the basis of questionnaires circulated among ministers and churchgoers in recent years, and of the enrollment of the avowed pacifist churches (Quakers, Mennonites, Brethren, Churches of Christ, Assemblies of God). Moreover, some of the biggest Protestant churches, among them the Northern Baptist,' Methodist and Disciples of Christ, have gone on record as claiming for their conscientious objector members the same exemption from combatant service which the Quakers and others will expect. The compilers of the Handbook...
...Other heights: Statue of Liberty, 151 feet; Christ the Redeemer (on Mt. Corcovado near Rio de Janeiro), 130 feet. Projected: San Francisco's St. Francis, 180 feet; Lenin (atop the Palace of the Soviets, Moscow), about 328 feet...
Outside of Asia's war personalities, Mr. Gunther was most fascinated by the Mahatma M. K. Gandhi, an "incredible combination of Jesus Christ, Tammany Hall and your father"; Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, an "Indian who became a westerner; an aristocrat who became a socialist; an individualist who became a great mass leader"; Emir Abdullah, of Trans-Jordan, who for laughs keeps a big concave-convex mirror in the entrance hall of his palace in Amman...
...simply bewildered by the many prayers being offered for me the world over. . . . Saluting His Holiness with profound reverence as the Vicar of Christ, familiarly as an honorary fellow alumnus of the University of Notre Dame,* I implore a daily remembrance at the altar...