Word: conductive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Dean Ernest Cadman Colwell of the University of Chicago's Divinity School: "You can't establish the Christian position in relation to conscription by quoting isolated passages from the Bible. ... I long ago stopped using proof-text to justify conduct." Director Paul Burt of the University of Illinois' Wesley Foundation told a pious anecdote about a proof-text layman who turned to the Bible for guidance in his life work, opened it at random to "Judas went and hanged himself." On his second try the alarmed layman hit on "Go thou and do likewise...
...United States must give up the idea of forcing its economic conditions on Germany or Europe. . . . To what extent we conduct trade with the United States [after World War II] depends absolutely upon Americans themselves . . . . As long as calumny is heaped on German products, such trade is, of course, problematical...
...conduct trade with South American states, we do not need North American mediation. Either economic exchange between Germany and South America is based on free, untrammeled arrangement, or it will not take place...
Barkley had another idea. As the noise waned, he roared: "Will the galleries remember they are our guests here and conduct themselves accordingly?" Galleryites, still quiet as mice, looked wonderingly at each other and went home en masse...
...Roosevelt, but people are saying that the President has permitted his personal pro-Ally bias to betray our nation into what is already almost a state of war. Today it seems likely that Roosevelt would be defeated in this State solely on the basis of his recent conduct of international affairs. Recently people are saying that Wendell Willkie is the one possible savior in sight...