Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Proof to Come." In the critical year of 1948, would that be good enough? On the night he accepted his nomination Tom Dewey showed his own realization that more was needed. Said he: "Our people yearn to move to higher ground, to find a common purpose in the finer things which unite us ... The unity we seek is more than material. Our problem is within ourselves. We have found the means to blow the world, physically, apart. Spiritually, we have yet to find the means to put together the world's broken pieces, to bind up its wounds...
...York Times, now Dewey's press secretary. In charge of practical politics and the panzer divisions: three of New York's smartest politicians-Lawyer Herbert Brownell Jr., National Committeeman J. Russel Sprague and Edwin F. Jaeckle, onetime state chairman. All of his staff had one thing in common: complete loyalty to Tom Dewey...
...Amsterdam meeting had its beginnings back in 1910, when missionaries of many non-Roman Catholic churches met in Edinburgh to discuss their common problems and the possibilities of cooperation. Among them was a U.S. Episcopal bishop, the Rt. Rev. Charles Henry Brent. In the midst of the proceedings, Bishop Brent suddenly saw things in a new perspective. "I learned that something was working that was not of man in that conference,'-' he said later. "The spirit of God . . . was preparing a new era in the history of Christianity." He set to work to persuade his fellow churchmen that...
...Agreed on a common currency...
...Augustine reproached himself for having had only one child by the concubine with whom he had a common-law marriage for 16 years before he was Converted to Christianity...