Word: covenanter
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The Art of the Possible. Byrnes's two chief helpers are Charles E. ("Chip") Bohlen, a handsome, alert careerist who acts as his Russian adviser-translator, and Benjamin V. ("Ben") Cohen, once mu:h the better half of F.D.R.'s (Thomas G.) Corcoran & Cohen team. Cohen, an idealist...
Man of Unity. In 1940 Bombay Moslems elected him to the Supreme Legislative Council. Jinnah rose steadily in the councils of the nationalists and in the courtrooms of India. He revisited England and there, in 1913, enrolled in the Moslem League. "Typical of his sense of honor," wrote his rhapsodic...
But some whites, refusing to be comforted, had drawn up a racial restriction covenant among themselves. For seven years they had tried to sell it to the other whites, but failed. Then they went to court.
The League's Assembly was almost certain to meet concurrently in London. A committee would be named to negotiate the League's demise. An active pallbearer would be Secretary General Sean Lester, whose Irish charm might do much to salvage bits of the League. Later another meeting would...
With Moderator Ferdinand Q. Blanchard's letter went the Congregational Christian Compact for World Order, 1944. It was patterned after the Mayflower Compact of 1620, in which the Pilgrims pledged themselves to work for a new world of freedom. At a special service, which will be held in their...