Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appeared in the New York World-Telegram, up to now fairly friendly. Still friendly, the bellwether of Publisher Roy Howard's nationwide flock was not critical. It said: "Until recently we had thought John L. Lewis plenty smart when it came to sensing public sentiment." But its faith had been shaken, the World-Telegram continued, by two incidents: 1) John Lewis' announcement last fortnight of a C.I.O. drive to organize Government employes at a time when "Lewis-haters were scaring their children with pictures of the Lewis eyebrows"; 2) an invitation to Harry Bridges, intense little leader...
...Doctrine of the Immaculate Conception concerns the conception of the Virgin Mary free from original sin, was confused by witness and Judge Yankwich with the unrelated Article of Faith concerning the Virgin Birth of Jesus Christ...
Recalling the World War years, most German-Americans agree that their neighbors' spy hysteria shattered not only their nerves but, for a time, their faith in the U. S. as well. Yet during that frantic period, Austrian Immigrant Ludwig Bemelmans, a 19-year-old U. S. Army recruit whose English could barely be understood, almost completely escaped the spy mania and acquired an affection for the U. S. that embraced factory landscapes, a "wondrously beautiful" prostitute and the insane. My War with the United States, a translation of his German diary, is the record of that sunny Americanization. Smiling...
...matters as best they can, were subjected last week to fresh raids, arrests and browbeatings by police. The Protestants' leader, Rev. Dr. Martin Niemöller, onetime submarine commander, bobbed up in his pulpit after a police grilling to say of Nazi Church Minister Hans Kerrl: "He regards faith in Jesus Christ as an absurd side issue!" With the Fatherland careening into the most ominous crisis of faith since the Russian Revolution, Adolf Hitler's delirious Jew-baiting friend Julius Streicher roared at Nürnberg: "Every Catholic priest convicted of immorality must be beheaded! Since...
...said Rowland George Allanson Allanson-Winn, fifth Baron Headley, when in 1913 he renounced Christianity to embrace the Moslem faith. Lord Headley became president of the British Muslim Society, pre-eminent among the 200 or so Britons who held to the faith of Allah and his Prophet. A Westminster and Cambridge athlete who had written textbooks on boxing, he was a civil engineer, a road-builder in India, one of the world's authorities on wave and tidal action and the protection of foreshores. Whether on a Christian or Moslem impulse, Lord Headley during the War urged that...