Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Farley's Faith...
...your issue of July 30, p. n, in speaking of Postmaster General Farley you state: "And Mr. Farley is neither the worst of sinners nor is he without the right faith." It is certainly pleasant reading for the Catholics to know that you brand their faith as the "right" one; not quite so pleasing to the Protestants, perhaps, who are attempting to live clean lives in this vale of tears. It is certainly too bad that TIME has relegated them to a place other than Heaven by reason of their possessing, in all innocence, the "wrong" faith. Shades of Washington...
Next afternoon a quartet opened the burial service by singing "God Will Take Care of Him." Father John Dillinger sat motionless in shirtsleeves. The Rev. Charles Fillmore, baptizer of Desperado Dillinger, preached: "I glory that this whole family has had faith in God ... a God of mercy ... so necessary in these days of vindictiveness and hatred." The quartet closed the service with: "We Say Good Night Down Here and Good Morning Up There...
...that of being "holier than 1929" he stands out as one who makes no pretense of being other than an old-fashioned political sinner. He might point out. however, that according to the tenets of his church, confessed sinners, even the worst of them, who have the right faith in their hearts, have a better chance of getting to Heaven than Pharisees. And Mr. Farley is neither the worst of sinners nor is he without the right faith...
...huge hall with nothing much else to do, they will probably sing, sleep or wax playful. Precisely that has occurred on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange almost every trading day for the past two months. Astonished visitors saw sights and heard sounds that would shake the faith of the blackest capitalist. Specialists dozed through raucous japery and ear-splitting versions of such old Floor favorites as "Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie" or "The Wearing of the Green." Oldsters yawned over backgammon, clerks wrestled and punched each other...