Word: clergyman
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...Philadelphia, thousands of Republican voters helped elect the first Demo cratic mayor in 67 years. In a kind of deathbed repentance, the once-invincible Republican machine had nominated the Rev. Daniel Poling, a famed Baptist clergyman, for the mayoralty. He was decisively beaten by Joseph S. Clark Jr. Richardson Dilworth, spearhead of the Democratic uprising, who was defeated for mayor four years ago after a vigorous campaign, was elected district attorney...
...chief censor is Interior Minister Theophilus Ebenhaezar Dönges, son of a Dutch Reformed clergyman. By law, he can ban anything he considers "indecent, obscene or. . . objectionable," and no court can overrule him. While his government is conducting an official inquiry into the policies of its own press and ceaselessly sniping at foreign correspondents who report from South Africa, Dönges has cut off more & more books and magazines that come from outside...
ULRICH HABERLAND, 50, is the temperamental boss of Leverkusen's huge Bayer works (biggest single chunk of the I. G. Farben chemical empire now being decartelized). Ex-Nazi son of an East German clergyman, he now claims to be apolitical. He is the reviving chemical industry's chief business strategist...
...Empty Kitty. To any visiting clergyman, of whatever denomination, Ford would say: "Well, now, you've got the best religion in the world." This gave rise to reports that he leaned toward various faiths, but, Bennett says, Ford had "his own private religion." He believed strongly in reincarnation. His proof, says Bennett, was simple. Pointing out that chickens, which used to run in front of autos and get killed, now headed for the side of the road, Ford said: "That chicken has learned, because it has been hit in the [behind] in a previous life...
...they also got signatures of many an eminent man who should have known better. Italy's Elder Statesman Vittorio Emanuele Orlando signed; so did ex-Premier Saverio Nitti. In Canada, Clergyman Alexander James Wilson signed because "I would do anything under heaven to ensure peace." In the days when the dove was really flapping, his prize victim was Henry Wallace, who pleaded that the Russians were misunderstood and that "the tougher we get, the tougher the Russians get." Others confusedly offered plans for "proving" the U.S. meant no offense. Example: Connecticut's Senator Brien McMahon's proposal...