Word: christian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even the major parties grew shrill in their attacks on each other. Last week, in Frankfurt's Römerberg Square, Socialists and Christian Democrats matched principles and lung power. As pink, plump Dr. Ludwig Erhard, the Christian Democrats' free-enterprising economic boss of Bizonia, started to speak, Socialist hecklers broke into a chorus: "Liar-liar-liar, we are jobless!" Cried Erhard: "I remain confident of the energy and determination of the German people . . . What we need is optimism, not control." This time, cheers drowned out the hecklers...
...question of a free v. a controlled economy was not the only issue between the two parties. The Christian Democrats, headed by foxy, polished, 73-year-old Konrad Adenauer, were backed by the Roman Catholic Church. Western Germany's bishops last month published a pastoral letter urging the faithful to vote for "Christian" candidates. To the bishops' letter, gaunt Socialist Leader Kurt Schumacher, violent champion of separation between church and state, made bitter reply. His party, he cried, had consistently fought all dictatorships, "whether marked by a swastika, a hammer and sickle, or deep black robes...
...desk of Publisher Isabel Bryan, a seventyish spinster, in the cluttered basement office of the Villager. Scoopy's byline and photograph had graced a widely read column of jottings and musings ("Scoopy Mewses") on the editorial page. Artists painted Scoopy's portrait, photographers snapped him, the Christian Science Monitor sang his praises...
Greek soldiers of the pre-Christian era had their own type of concentrated K-rations, even as the G.I.s of World...
...conscience of red-haired Larry Gara, like that of many another Christian, has led him down a hard & lonely road. When World War II began, it prompted him to refuse to register for the draft. Quaker Gara went to jail, spent three years there...