Word: credo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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World Peace. As at all conventions nowadays, World Peace was popular. International Advertising Association President Charles Clark Younggreen led it down the aisle opening day when he said: "We have come here to present the credo that human and national differences can be settled otherwise than by appeal to arms." England's Lord George Allardice Riddell, newspaper bigwig, gave it a seat when he said: "Who of us sitting here today would twelve years ago have predicted that Americans, Frenchmen and Englishmen would meet in Berlin to discuss advertising methods?" France's Dr. Marcel Knecht, secretary...
Last week in Hollywood's American Legion stadium, President Gillmore disclosed these negotiations to a host of 4,000 actors. Loudly they approved Equity's 80% demand. A ballot was taken, the results to be sent to the producers. With a credo thus determined, Equity was prepared to continue its campaign with more sanity, unanimity...
...stately, broad-minded president of Radcliffe College. As a political independent, she has kept her Prohibition views strictly to herself. Soon after her appointment she was asked, of course, if she was related to the late great Reformer Anthony Comstock. She replied: "There is no traceable connection." Her legal credo is this: "I believe in as few rules as possible and a rigid enforcement of the rules that do exist...
...Devil but only 53% gave him a Hell in which to live. The students' score, also seemingly illogical, was 11% in belief of a real Hell but only 9% in belief of a real Devil. From the mass of contradictory credences could be sifted an essential credo, believed by 75% or more of the combined ministers and students. This credo would read: "I believe in the personal, omnipotent God, the Father, who controls the universe, and operates on human lives through the agency of the Holy Spirit. I believe that Jesus like myself was tempted, that...
This tenet of the Coolidge credo was reiterated by the President at last week's semi-annual business meeting of the government in Washington. It was the dominant note in an address devoted to the eight years of budget system history. Those years have seen the public debt reduced from $24,000,000,000 to $17,000,000,000. Big business, an invalid in 1921, has revived. Unemployment has been lessened, economic confidence restored...