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...relic of an older day and an older creed of senatorial seniority and personal privilege, Kenneth McKellar sat, bowed and disconsolate, as his colleagues voted 36-to-31 to confirm Gordon Clapp...
...statement continued, however, "The Committee hopes that there will henceforth be actual and continued equal treatment of all members of the community, regardless of race, creed or color...
Yesterday's agreement includes the management's assertion that the club's by-laws do not preclude members because of race, creed, or color. This is a bare statement of fact. The management, if it wishes, can still, continue to refuse membership to colored persons. And the stipulation that guests of members will not be barred because of color smacks heavily of a condescension. Taken in its worst interpretation it could mean that colored persons are acceptable when accompanied by someone who will be responsible for their conduct...
...Alexandria knew old St. Anthony by reputation, for he had worked miracles of solace among the martyrs there 30 years before. In the basilica he was given the place of honor, the archbishop's throne. When the service reached the new Nicene Creed (. . . "very God of very God, begotten not made, being of one substance with the Father, by whom all things were made. . .), an Arian heckler interrupted to protest. Old Anthony was puzzled. He did not understand the controversy very well, but he knew what he knew. Before a crowd tense with suppressed rationalism and electrified...
...rule was firm: the U.S. would not withhold food from any peoples who were starving -not even the enemies of democracy. But, by the same token, nondemocratic nations drawing U.S. relief would not be allowed to starve the friends of democracy. Distribution must be "without discrimination as to race, creed or political belief...