Word: creed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...iron manufacturing, built the first U. S. steam locomotive ("Tom Thumb"), promoted the first transatlantic cables, built one of the first big U. S. fortunes. An industrialist and inventor of genius, he won his most lasting fame by founding Manhattan's great free educational centre, Cooper Union. His creed...
...consolation prize Justice Stone's dissenting opinion in the A.A.A. case is being hailed by New Dealers as a heroic statement of the liberal creed and a judicial vindication of their ill starred policies. But upon close examination the opinion is neither heroic nor Judicial, and from the first paragraph on expresses a fear and trembling one hardly expects to hear from the Supreme Court. Justice Stone appears far less worried about the constitutionality of the A.A.A. than he is about some imagined danger of the conservative wing of the court rocking the boat amid the troubled waters of modern...
...Revolution. (The one Daughter in the book is a throwback, impoverished into sympathy for her Red neighbors.) Marching! Marching! obeys the law of Marxian fiction in having no hero but half-a-dozen protagonists, each symbolizing some aspect of the proletarian struggle. In spite of her ancestry and her creed, Clara Weatherwax writes first-rate, first-hand U.S. prose that will remind more than one reader of Dos Passes. Her propaganda will propagate few proselytes, but her winged words should strike home to even a carapacic conservative...
...Apostles' Creed that we believe in the forgiveness of sins. I forgive because I hope I have Jesus Christ in my heart. He said, 'Father, forgive them, for they know not what they...
...they can, if they will just drop a note to the White House, be virtually assured of a formal chit from the President of the U. S. expounding his sympathy with their aspirations, his admiration for men of their calling, perhaps his appreciation of the civic virtues of their creed, race, or particular forbears. Last week the members of the New York Board of Trade settled back in their chairs at luncheon to hear a chit written by the President specifically to be read to them. It had come in answer to a letter from one of their officers, assuring...