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...this year, is the first big project they have ever undertaken jointly. The denomination is resolutely unorganized, and frowns on any sort of central church administration. Its members broke away from the Disciples of Christ after the Civil War, in protest against the use of a set creed, organ music in church, and organized missionary societies...
...Crimson Creed? Some of Morris' fellow Republicans in Washington, hardly delighted at his taking the Truman appointment, were doing their best to make him trouble. Almost as soon as he got to Washington, Newbold was linked with the Chinese tanker deal. His law firm had got $100,000 in fees for advising onetime Congressman Joseph Casey of Massachusetts and the group which originally bought the surplus tankers from the Government. Furthermore, Newbold himself headed the China International Foundation, a philanthropic organization which held the stock of United Tanker Corp. (see above), which, in turn, delivered oil to Communist China...
Last week South Dakota's G.O.P. Senator Karl Mundt teed off on Morris' law firm by referring repeatedly to "blood profits" and what he called the "crimson creed" of American interests which had dealt with the Reds. Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy happily announced (without naming names) that two members of the China International Foundation's board had been active in Communist-front groups. Then the President, who was presumably hot-eyed also, called Newbold in to hear a few well-chosen words...
...Hearst executive once told A. J. Liebling that "the public is interested in just three things: Blood, money, and...sexual intercourse." Hearstlings Lait and Mortimer have taken that creed to heart. They have written long and loud about what's wrong with America, always with at least one eye on the public interest...
...century Christianity has lost the stringent note. For most of us there is no cross in it, no abstinence, no subjugation of the flesh in the interests of the spirit. People are not made to feel when they look at the church and its program that Christianity is a creed for heroes or that to embrace it means 'living dangerously' . . . The man on the street has little reason to think, that Christians are a company of people committed to the turning of the world upside down with a view to setting it right side up ... When the church...