Word: christian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over, the assembly got down to business in the shiny, modern auditorium of Bonn's Pedagogical Institute. What followed was as refreshing an exhibition of parliamentary vigor as Europe had had in years. Up rose portly Socialist Carlo Schmid to pledge his party's cooperation with the Christian Democrats (who hold a slight majority). In the past, the Social Democrats had fought the Christian Democrats tooth & nail in every election; but the Berlin airlift had galvanized both parties into common enthusiasm and common sense...
...formal, orderly vote was taken on Reimann's motion to abandon the assembly; all voted against him, except his one fellow Communist. Christian Democratic Leader Konrad Adenauer, Cologne's ex-mayor and one of Germany's most respected public figures, took over as chairman. Said he: "A start must be made so that Germany can earn a place among the free nations of the world...
Despite this heavy flavor of Lake Success, Amsterdam was being watched with prayerful hope by Christians throughout the world. This hope was expressed in the Christian Century, in a quatrain by Edith Lovejoy Pierce, titled Amsterdam and Lake Success...
...CHICAGO, Samuel Cardinal Stritch told the Summer School of Catholic Action: "Let us admit that we are not succeeding in presenting the Christian ideal so that it fires the imagination and enthusiasm of our fellow men. Perhaps too many of us are indulging in compromise and yielding to fear . . . Human respect makes us tolerant of compromise. Let us Set away from that." Members of the school picked Bing Crosby as "the Catholic layman who has made the most important contribution to the ... Church...
...foundrymen. Moreover, White knew that the plant, which Republic built, was so much a part of Republic's other operations that it could never be cut out of them without a long shutdown. Kaiser confessed that he was in for trouble unless the committee could "make a Christian out of White...