Word: creeds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What we want is a short, clear creed, acceptable to the decent common man everywhere, that will act like a trumpet call. Then we must proclaim it everywhere. ... If we fought with ideas as well as weapons, we should not only help to construct a world worth living in, but also shorten...
...willing to suffer for our faith, we will find the path to the heart of our people. There are in Holland more than 7,000 who do not want to bow before Baal. And behind these 7,000 and more, stand millions who are united today in one common creed. This union needs no demonstrations. One demonstration is made by them each week, every Sunday morning, when they go to church." To the Nazis' annoyance, Dutch churches still pray for "Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina, other members of the Royal Family and The Netherlands Government." A typical Calvinist leader...
Legend had encrusted "Old Mac's" career; few knew the man himself. To all but a tiny circle of intimates, he was a crotchety, bitter old man. "suckled in a creed outworn," passionately loyal to the thinking of an era now as dead as its fringed surreys, gas lamps and stereopticons; an old man whose many hates included tobacco and Jews (tobacco smoke sent him into tantrums; he alone refused to sign a farewell testimonial from the Court to Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis; when Hoover appointed Benjamin Cardozo he reputedly roared: "What! Another Jew?" and ostentatiously rattled a newspaper...
...vigorous was Confessional and Lutheran Council opposition to Reichsbishop Muller that Hitler soon shelved him, presently gave his powers to Minister of Church Affairs Hanns Kerrl. Minister Kerrl's creed: "The primacy of the State over the Church must be recognized. . . . The question of the divinity of Christ is ridiculous and unessential. A new authority, Adolf Hitler, has arisen as to what Christ and Christianity really are." To Minister Kerrl, Adolf Hitler is "the Jesus Christ as well as the Holy Ghost of the Fatherland...
Throughout the entire nation similar letters with Christmas Seals will be passing through all Post Offices on their way to homes, businesses and colleges of all sizes and kinds. It is a State and Nationwide drive with every nationality, every creed and every color contributing to its cause...