Word: credo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bacon. At his desk in Kiel, hardworking Karl Doenitz can, by twisting his close-cropped head, ponder a wall portrait of prong-bearded old Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, World War I evangelist of unrestricted U-boat warfare. Inscribed on the portrait he could read the U-boat credo: Die Tat ist alles-The deed is all. In other words: the only thing that matters in U-boating is the bacon you bring home...
This feeling is nothing new. It was over a decade ago that the Japanese General Kiokatu Sato wrote a credo to which Admiral Yamamoto would certainly lend his every nerve...
Booth Tarkington, 72, makes his debut in dress-shirt music this week when the Indianapolis Symphony and a contralto soloist give Credo-words by Tarkington...
...nothing compared with the depths of despair into which I am plunged when some accident halts the Ann Arbor juggernaut and Minnesota comes out ahead. That Minnesota game for the past four years has been the bane of my existence, spiritual and financial. My credo states as a fundamental premise that The Little Brown Jug belongs on a shelf in the Perry Field Athletic Building and that it is only a streak of bad luck that has allowed it to stray up to Little Sweden. I have a number of Minnesota acquaintances here in Cambridge, and they all take pleasure...
...Perkins is a rare New Deal exhibit: a hard-driving businessman who left a thriving business to take a modest job in a Government bureau. He did it because he is an evangelist at heart. Unlike many a cynical Government worker, Milo Perkins really believes in the New Deal credo that "nobody should go hungry...