Word: covenanter
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*The Afro-American was angry because Republican Vice-Presidential Candidate Richard Nixon signed a restrictive covenant, preventing resale to a Negro, when he bought his house in Washington. The paper did not seem disturbed by the fact that Democratic Vice-Presidential Candidate John Sparkman, one of Nixon's neighbors...
Evans even dared attack the ark of the Socialist covenant-the notion that wages can be increased indefinitely by cutting into business profits. In Britain, said Evans, this "simply isn't true. Let us be honest. Broadly, the position today is that we all pay each other's...
The first "counter-heresy" is "the negative and sterile view of the separation of church and state." Originally, the U.S. Protestant tradition regarded church and state as "not two insulated compartments, but rather interrelated parts of a whole society. Both were bound by a covenant with God which expressed their...
Ground Swell. Chamberlain credits the Freeman's upsurge to a "political and psychological ground swell in our direction," and he hopes not only to ride it but to help influence it. In the '30s, when Chamberlain was a young stalwart of the left wing, he was well aware...
* Including a fuzzy clause on freedom of information in the proposed U.N. covenant of human rights, written by the Human Rights Commission, on which Mrs. Roosevelt is U.S. delegate. A subcommittee is meeting in Manhattan this week to work principally on a "code of ethics" for the press.