Word: credo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week that they had taken sides in a dispute which finds Jews themselves in sharp disagreement. In Philadelphia last fortnight, a potent group of non-Zionist Jews met under sturdy, deliberate Rabbi Louis Wolsey of Philadelphia to form a new organization called the American Council for Judaism. Its credo, as stated by Rabbi Wolsey: "[We] will seek to identify and define the Jew as a member of a religious community and nothing else. . . . We are definitely opposed to a Jewish State, a Jewish flag or a Jewish Army...
After a year of wartime publishing and a shift in policy, the editors of "Threshold" have decided to devote all of one issue to a single type of subject matter. In terms of the magazine's own credo, its latest number is concerned with the shape of "the new world order." Under that rubric the organ of International Student Service has gathered both one of the finest and one of the poorest articles it has ever printed...
...Training men for the war comes first," says Dean David of the Business School, "but we are doing all the research we can to anticipate some important post war problems." With this credo and the high-pressure efficiency of big business, the recently appointed chief has piloted the Business School safely through the storm of a gigantic war time reorganization...
...mislead strangers about the kind of businessman 54-year-old Donald Davis really is. No Horatio Alger up-from-nothing boy, he studied engineering at Michigan with the cold-blooded notion that he would avoid settling on any one career until he was 35. Living up to his credo, he shifted from senior engineer for a wheel company to cost accounting for a trust company to factory manager for an auto-accessory company which was making 75-mm. shell casings for World War I. He helped organize the milling division of Herbert Hoover's Food Administration, then switched again...
Periodicals dealing with subjects as ephemeral as "planning the post-war world" are apt to find themselves becalmed in the doldrums of utopian yearnings. "Threshold" has skillfully stayed afloat and on its course without jettisoning its credo...