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...whom Woodrow Wilson called "the First Citizen of Texas"; in Houston. British-born Henry Cohen came to Galveston in 1888, soon became famous for scurrying through the streets and stopping to jot down on his long, white cuff ("my notebook") the names of those he must help, regardless of creed ("There is no such thing as Methodist mumps, Baptist domestic troubles, Presbyterian poverty or Catholic broken legs"). His interest in parole work was sparked by Author O. Henry, a onetime convict, and he became a leader in Texas prison reform. With a shotgun over his shoulder and a bottle...
...Level. As Ike said, the creed was an old one. But the man, the year and the place made it new and alive. This was not the local-boy-makes-good story. It was not the up-from-log-cabin story. Nor was Ike suggesting that all problems could be solved by the simple equations of rural Kansas. This was the story of fundamentals which had served Ike Eisenhower well -and through him, the nation. It was the creed of the man who could say "Free government is the political expression of a deeply felt religious faith...
Firmly Fundamentalist. Bob Jones Sr. is a Methodist; his son Bob Jr., who found modern Methodists "too liberal," was ordained by the Christian and Missionary Alliance. They keep their school interdenominational, however, welcome students and faculty members who subscribe to a firmly fundamentalist creed. "Religiously," says Bob Jr., "our testimony is: whatever the Bible says is true...
Citation: "When those acquiring such power . . . use it aright, we progress with unprecedented strides. When it is used wrongly, our very civilization is threatened. We are grateful that you have used this power unselfishly with an honest searching for truth, with a noble and a godly creed, and that you have stayed on the side of th: angels...
Sachs made a trip home to Russia in 1921 and came back a Communist, but he was publicly expelled by the party in 1931. The creed he now proclaims is "South Africa needs not Lenin, but Lincoln." Only last year, South Africa's supreme court ruled that he is not a Communist. To many, including influential conservative newspapers, the Malan government seemed less concerned with Sachs's being a Communist than with getting control of his and other trade unions, then forcing them to follow the Nationalist Party's apartheid (segregation) line...