Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about Jews and Marxists. After lunching at the Bank of France with the Premier, Finance Minis ter Vincent Auriol and other French Cabinet members, Dr. Schacht purred: "Both in general and in technical discussions, I got the impression of having to deal with intelligent and capable men of good faith. I am eminently satisfied! How could one help being satisfied when one has just talked with a man like Blum? I am very happy with the results of my trip...
...president to serve until another president should be elected, and there was a great demonstration in which shirt-sleeved men paraded in feathered Indian headdress, girls blew kisses at the platform. With similar unanimity, the Convention adopted its political resolutions, couched in a churchly laudamus style : "We reaffirm our faith in American institutions, particularly our faith in the Constitution. . . . We praise that document. . . . We praise. . . . We further praise. . . Lastly we praise the Constitution in its entirety and inclusive of its amendments. . . . Finally, lest specification detract from the fullness of our sanction, we publish our unreserved and unqualified endorsements...
...International Football Federation ordered the game replayed. When the Peruvian team failed to appear, the game was awarded to Austria by default. Peru's whole Olympic team of 50 promptly decided to quit the Games. Said Michael Dasso of the Peruvian Olympic Committee: "We've no faith in European athletics. We have come here and found a bunch of merchants...
...Mussolini became Premier. "Remembering how little desire he had shown to lose his life during the War I was amazed," Lussu reflected, "that he should be so anxious to die in time of peace." Another democratic Deputy told Lussu that opposition was useless, since tyranny could never triumph over faith. Then when a group of Fascists passed he replied to the Fascist salute, complained bitterly that Italians were developing a slave psychology...
...liberty, became a prominent Fascist, visited Lussu before his arrest. The Deputy asked him glumly, "What have you done with the barbed wire?" In reply the lawyer handed Lussu an old edition of a 16th-Century book, made him read the title. It was: The Ultimate Profession of Faith of Simon Sinai, of Lucca, first Roman Catholic, then Calvinist, then Lutheran, then again Catholic, but always an Atheist...