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...Five-Foot Shelf); on clean collars (Cluett-Peabody collar ads); on shaving (Gillette); on working (Alexander Hamilton Institute); on Jesus and the Bible (The Man Nobody Knows, The Book Nobody Knows). Barton, a born preacher and sloganeer, a superb luncheon-club speaker, son of a Tennessee clergyman, implemented his creed of service by fighting his way into Congress in 1938 as an amateur from Manhattan's only Republican district-the Silk-Stocking Seventeenth, compounded of Park Avenue and nearby slums...
...twin regents last week, and given identical uniforms and equal governing power, did San Marino catch up with World War II. But something else had been forgotten by San Marino. The stonecutter Marinus during his lifetime railed against wars to gain territory, on his deathbed gave his people a creed which has guided them from the Fourth Century until the 20th: "We do not want an inch of others' lands and we will not give up an inch...
...readers have long ago forgotten or decided to ignore Kipling's political creed for the sake of his storytelling, his motto-memorable verse: Mr. Shanks sternly reminds them that they had better not. Whether or not Kipling was a profound thinker, he was an effective preacher, and he never came down from the pulpit, even when he was conducting services ostensibly for the children (The Jungle Books, Just So Stories...
...desire this because although I love England very dearly and consider this lovely island the best spot in the world, I'm a convinced internationalist. I like to feel I'm just a tiny part of universal life which will one day break down all divisions of creed or speech and economic barriers and make mankind one great eternal unit both in life and death...
...dreamed of a world-wide brotherhood with the background of a common race and creed, consecrated to the service of peace: Britain enriching the rest out of her culture and traditions. . . . I saw in the Empire a means of giving to the congested masses at home open country instead of a blind alley. . . . Our creed was not based on antagonism to any other people. It was humanitarian and international; we believed that we were laying the basis of a federation of the world. . . . The 'white man's burden' is now an almost meaningless phrase; then it involved...