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The United Nations Commission on Human Rights was correct in omitting economic and social guarantees from its proposed Covenant of Human Rights, Zechariah Chafee, Laugdell Professor of Law, said Saturday.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Initial Human Rights Efforts Should Be Limited--Chafee | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

The author considers these three religions from a philosophical, not a practical, point of view. Judaism, he says, is a covenant which binds together one chosen group of people in an exclusive pact with God. Catholicism "is the enterprise of establishing in some effective fashion a synthesized tradition which will...

Author: By David L. Ratner, | Title: On Merging the Faiths | 3/7/1950 | See Source »

This is the fundamental weakness of Mr. Lamprecht's solutions. He assumes that a religion can give up these "trappings" and substitute objective knowledge of its rich heritage for a partisan devotion to its cause. But the result of this would be a metamorphosis in the philosophical as well as...

Author: By David L. Ratner, | Title: On Merging the Faiths | 3/7/1950 | See Source »

There was little audible response to the confessions. The audience sat quiet in the stuffy, humid chapel. Here & there, listeners sat with their heads in their hands. Patiently through almost all of it waited the Rev. Edwin Johnson of Seattle's First Mission Covenant Church, who, as leader of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: 42 Hours of Repentance | 2/20/1950 | See Source »

The Cry and the Covenant, by Morton Thompson. The tragic life of Hungarian Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis, discoverer of the cause of childbed fever, as told in a sometimes awkward, always sincere novelized version (TIME, Nov. 14).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable, Feb. 20, 1950 | 2/20/1950 | See Source »

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