Word: creed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sperry subcontractors now put in about 860,000 man-hours monthly, will shortly exceed 1,000,000. This means that Sperry, besides its own 18,500 employes will keep about 7,500 people on full time for defense. Excerpts from Sperry's "Creed for Subcontracting...
Anybody who has made even the most cursory study of the state and creed knows that the whole system is a denial of the power of the church and of Christianity itself. They know that in the past few months Stalin has repeatedly bemoaned the fact that they hadn't done a complete job on the church. But now along comes President Roosevelt and points to an obscure article in the still more obscure Russian constitution saying that religion is to be permitted. Gone from the picture are the volumes written against the church and Christianity, gone are the memories...
Rosy Rosendahl's airborne creed is: that the U.S. needs good offshore patrol and needs it badly. As evidence he presented the 1918 raids by U-boats on commerce in U.S. waters, a piece he knew by heart. That summer six U-boats left Kiel to see what kind of trouble they could stir up on the U.S. Atlantic coast...
...believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Such were the opening words of the personal creed that Godfearing, philanthropic John D. Rockefeller Jr. offered the nation last week (along with a donation of $100,000) in opening United Service Organizations' drive for $3,500,000 in New York City...
There Francis won the dislike and doctrinal distrust of "tall, dark, thin, intense yet sardonic" Father Tarrant. When Francis ventured: "Surely, sir, creed is such an accident of birth God can't set an exclusive value on it," Father Tarrant answered icily: "What an admirable heretic you would have made, my good Chisholm...