Word: creation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...believe in (a single, eternal, all-inclusive, all-pervading Life Principle whose source and perfect embodiment is God, who finds varying degrees of embodiment in all forms of life, who is the prototype of every grace, power and nobility found in his creation, and whom I call) God, the Father Almighty, Maker of Heaven and Earth; and in Jesus Christ (not), His only Son (for whose son am I? But), our Lord (because he is a, more nearly perfect embodiment of the Life Principle than any one I know...
...till then Unilever's U.S. subsidiary had been largely the creation of President Francis A. Countway, an elegant patrician who sometimes seemed more like a Renaissance prince than what many people called him: "the greatest advertising man in the U.S." Lifebuoy soap was introduced from England in 1898, but it was Countway who, after a golf game one hot afternoon, invented B.O. to go with it. He had presided over the debuts of Lux Toilet Soap, Rinso, Swan and Spry. He had earned his huge salary (in 1939, $469,000, highest in the U.S. outside Hollywood) by boosting Lever...
Last week a Manhattan gallery put on a show by six veterans, in which the standout painting was Levine's Welcome Home -a satiric study of a beribboned and be-napkined general at a banquet. Explained Levine: "Some officers lived in a world of their own creation. This general has come home and he's still in that sort of a world. I'm not talking about men like Bradley and Eisenhower. I've never seen them but I have great respect .for them. It's just the big slob who is vice president...
...decadent world, and ready to carry that gospel wherever the range of guns and bombs can reach. . . . And now a whole generation is looking helplessly round for some faith as powerful and as transforming that they can erect in opposition to this portentous, man-devouring sphinx of their own creation...
...Follette-Monroney suggestions do not extend to abolition of seniority rule of the Senatorial filibuster, because it was felt that an attack on these institutions would kill whatever chance of Congressional acceptance he reform proposals night have. The report, however, does advocate another hotly, debated innovation--creation of a legislative-executive cabinet. Sitting in this cabinet are to be fourteen Congresmen, chosen equally from Presidential supporters in each house, who will be responsible for formulating the Administration's over-all legislative policy. These Congresional leaders, together with the President and heads of his chief agencies, would form the Joint Legislative...