Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took the lumps out of oatmeal," glowed Wilson & Company Inc.'s President James D. Cooney, "and showed the housewife there can be something to a meal besides broiled meat and fried potatoes. You have been responsible for making eating an adventure." Food Columnist Eleanor Richey Johnston of the Christian Science Monitor knew the compliment was deserved. "It's quite clear," said she, "that a great number of women use us as bibles...
...Upset by the gambling-house wedding of four-times-married Rita Hayworth and four-times-married Dick Haymes (TIME, Oct. 5), the Christian Century called for a law "to limit the number of marriages which could be contracted by persons whose previous unions had ended in divorce. Where draw the line?...The same principle could be applied as that which is used by several states in dealing with incorrigible criminals: regardless of the crime, the fourth conviction is for life...
When the social reformers were tall in the saddle back in 1934, the U.S. Congregationalists set up a Council for Social Action. Its aim was to help make "the Christian gospel more effective in society," and its membership was drawn heavily from the ranks of those who feared many things more than creeping socialism. Among the causes the council plugged: the consumer cooperative movement, compulsory health insurance, federal aid to education. By last year, such council gospel had drawn so much Congregational counterfire (TIME, March 17, 1952) that a nine-man committee was set up to investigate it. Last week...
...should be noted," said the report, "that differences of Christian opinion usually occur in the realm of means rather than that of ends." Granted a desirable end, it is rare that one means of achieving it "can be singled out as the only 'Christian' way, and therefore most deserving of the support of the church"-whereas the literature of the council "has sometimes been definitely slanted in the direction of a particular political or economic program." In lobbying, if ever, the council "should not take a partisan position on matters on which the churches are not substantially united...
...more certain than ever," he wrote, "that the best way to get Christian social and political action is not by pronouncements or pressures by church bodies but by inspiring Christian men and women to become politicians-that is, to work on social and political problems as individual Christian citizens, and in voluntary association with other right-minded citizens...