Word: crediters
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Chicago's Catholics freely credit Cody with a number of notable reforms: he has modernized the archdiocesan seminary, raised the salaries of lay teachers in parochial schools, let assistant pastors elect two representatives to Chicago's influential board of priest consultors (previously all members had been appointed by the archbishop). By the same token, Cody is something of an authoritarian; both his priests and his parishioners complain that his communications, far from being two-way, consist of his sending the word on down. Last month an ad hoc committee organized three meetings attended by 400 Chicago clerics, recommended...
...axiomatic for Ethical Culture that a good deed is better than a bad creed. This week, when the New York Society for Ethical Culture-mother chapter of the nationwide American Ethical Union-celebrates its 90th anniversary, it can take credit for enough good deeds to honor spiritual institutions ten times as big. Over the years, members have been responsible for creating the N.A.A.C.P., the American Civil Liberties Union, the Legal Aid Society, the Visiting Nurse Service, and the nation's first settlement house...
...gentleman." Roche now ranks second at G.M. to Chairman Frederic G. Donner and is the odds-on-choice to succeed him when Donner turns 65 in the fall of 1967. While Donner supervises top policy from Manhattan, Roche heads day-today operations, can take much of the credit-and blame-for implementing policies. More and more, G.M. is using earthy Jim Roche instead of steely Fred Donner as its public voice. It was Roche who went to Washington to apologize for the embarrassing fact that G.M. underlings-unbeknownst to Roche-had hired detectives to probe the private affairs of Safety...
...leaves him no other choice. Instead, the President has fought inflation by using the old jawbone technique and several new devices, including the speedup in withholding taxes. Most important, he has depended on Chairman William McChesney Martin and the Federal Reserve Board to cool off the economy by tightening credit and raising interest rates...
...period since World War II the struggle of Washingtonians to regain the right of self-government has gained in intensity and sophistication, and has at least one victory--the Twenty-third Amendment--to its credit. Finally in the 89th Congress, thanks to Goldwater's landslide defeat, home rule advocates found themselves in a more favorable position than ever before...