Word: faith
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some fire in the people's bellies," was the cry of Republican Alf Landon last summer (TIME, July 18). A cry of Republican Representative Bruce Barton to young voters last week was: "If there is fire in your hearts and a thrilling faith in America-then come with...
...Parties: "One party can say to me that it always favored an uncompromising attitude, even should that lead to war. . . . That is, the Communist Party! The violence and intransigence of this party sought to paralyze my action. When its newspapers, its orators coarsely attacked Chamberlain who worked with admirable faith for safety and peace, did that not weaken the position of France? When they addressed daily challenges to the French Government did that facilitate our action? When they launched anathema against governments before whom we found ourselves in perilous negotiation, did they not risk hindering it and precipitating...
...Defining faith as a belief and a trust--a belief in God as the only real being, and a willingness to trust our daily living to His guidance--the Very Reverend Walter R. Matthews, Dean of St. Paul's London, opened a series of addresses last night in Memorial Chapel. For the first time in the history of the William Beldon Noble Foundation, on which they are being given, the addresses are intended primarily for university students...
...have faith in God is the most important thing in the world," Dean Matthews emphatically declared. "God is not only real, He is the real being; the core and basis of the world is spiritual. To realize the supreme claim of truth and righteousness is to be in harmony with the purpose of the world, and this constitutes faith...
Speaking before 900 people in the second of three lectures he is giving under the aegis of Radcliffe on "The Crisis in Political Philosophy," the one-time Harvard faculty member cautioned his audience to be wary of pinning its faith on pure reason, a major premise of liberal philosophy, because it gives rise to the question, "Whose reason...