Word: elder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chinese feel that the Wedemeyer mission was only a rubber stamp for a long-held Marshall decision to let China stew in her own juice. Just after Wedemeyer left for home, several Kuomintang elders had a session with the Generalissimo. Tears flowed. Breasts were beaten. Without additional U.S. help and with Russian intervention likely to increase, where could China turn? One leader suggested the inevitable: rapprochement with Russia, and proposed sending Elder Statesman Chen Li-fu to Moscow...
...Elder Statesman Herbert Hoover, the only living ex-President of the United States, mulled over the cause & effect of World War II in the American magazine last week: "We never would have been attacked by the Japanese if we had not given them provocation. ... If we had kept out of the immediate conflict, we could have put our sword down on the table, with our economic resources intact, and made a decent peace when the time for peacemaking came. I never believed Britain was in danger of defeat. When Germany attacked Russia, it made a British victory possible...
...addition to his gifts at pulpit oratory, he has a talent for organization. His 4,677-member flock is broken down into 85 sub-flocks of 20 to 30 families, each under the spiritual supervision of a "shepherd" who is an elder of the church. An elaborate system of 12,000 cross-reference cards lists church members by "talents," age groups and professions. He assigns one of his three assistant pastors to devote full time to attracting and converting new members, another to keeping church members jumping with activity seven days a week.* A major source of pride...
...Hemingway influence had spent itself, they were less sure of what is to come in U.S. writing. Said Robert Penn Warren: "I know that it had better not be the cozy and vulgar version of sweetness-and-light longed for by the friends and relations of Oliver Allston [Elder Critic Van Wyck Brooks] or by complacent tinhorn patrioteers. The times we are heading into shouldn't give much encouragement for that guff except in the lending libraries." Added Dos Passos: "Young writers who believe in themselves should be willing to starve in a garret once more...
Married. John Gilbert Winant Jr., 25, handsome, taciturn elder son of the one-time U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, for 19 months a P.W. in Germany (after his B-17 was shot down over Münster); and Janine Perret, 24, a Swiss girl he met nine years ago; in Geneva...