Word: creed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drawing a creed, not a pla-form," declared Harrison Earl Spangler, Republican National Committeeman from Iowa and one of the promoters of the convention...
Before the delegates were all assembled it was apparent that they would have no trouble in writing their creed. As they dropped off the train, one after another cried, as if with a common inspiration: "Save the Constitution...
...months to maintain their gold standard has reached heroic proportions. Their inflationary experience of a little over a decade ago convinced them that a decision to devaluate is nothing short of an invitation to disaster, a voluntary walking of the plank. It's much more than a political creed; it's a national frame of mind, the result of bitter experience...
...dormitories, Harvard has shown again, as she has so often in the past, that fine tolerance which is the hallmark of intellectual distinction. John Reed was one of her brilliant sons. He died for his faith in the Bolshevik revolution. It matters not that his political creed was in violent opposition to anything of the kind entertained by most Harvard men then or now. Harvard is not concerned with his opinions, but with the spirit of a man who gave everything he had in support of what he believed. Not as a Communist, but as an idealist does she honor...
...LeBlanc and Robert M. Harriss, unorthodox Wall Streeters who believed the Road to Recovery lay through the Vale of Dollar Devaluation and the Slough of Silver Remonetization. The Priest took them for his guides. Now facts & figures cascaded from his tongue in musical billions, and he had a creed: "There is enough of everything in this nation except money...