Word: creeds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...known to millions as the Sleepy Warrior, threw into temporary chaos an abortive revolt by a small and disorganized faction of the group to nudge a slate of Apathy men onto Council lists. Latest reports show, however, that in six other Houses, the apathy men remained true to their creed and failed in droves to attend the meetings...
...Catholic slogan that 'birth control is against God's law' is the most immoral creed over proposed by man," Karl Sax, professor of Botany, declared in an interview last night defending the bill now before the State Legislature which would enable Bay State physicians to prescribe contraceptives for married women...
...joined the Nazi movement. Five years later, Hitler appointed her Leader of German Women. She told German women: "We do everything regularly and jointly in accordance with the Führer's will. We obey unconditionally." She sent them to factories and farms, relentlessly pursued the Nazi race creed. "We bring the fruits of our motherhood to the Führer," she said, "and say to him, 'It is the best that we have. Therefore it belongs...
...Benes wrote a letter to the Central Committee of the Czech Communist party: "I have been thinking ... I am trying to see clearly. ... I feel the people's will is to achieve a progressive and really socialist life through peaceful and orderly means. . . . You know my sincerely democratic creed. I cannot but stay faithful to this creed even at this moment. ... I beg of you ... let us all together begin negotiations again...
Gollancz concentrates on two major social phenomena which he feels most markedly violate his creed of Christian love: the practices of the Stalin dictatorship and the Allied occupation policy in Germany. In great detail he explores the "specialized idealism" of Stalin's followers, that double-bookkeeping morality which permits them to engage in the most immoral activity precisely because they are sincerely convinced that they work in behalf of a liberating cause. "A communist spy is particularly dangerous ... not because he's a scoundrel but because...