Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ANSWER ANY OF THE QUESTIONS. I RECEIVED NO COMMUNICATION FROM THE CATHOLIC WAR VETERAN. . . . I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH HAS SURRENDERED ITS POWER OF EXCOMMUNICATION TO ANY LAY ORGANIZATION. I FURTHER BELIEVE AS AN AMERICAN CITIZEN THAT THERE IS A DISTINCTION BETWEEN MATTERS OF FAITH AND POLITICAL CONVICTIONS. I DO NOT RECOGNIZE THE RIGHT OF ANYONE TO INTERFERE WITH OR ATTEMPT TO COERCE MY POLITICAL BELIEFS AS AN AMERICAN CITIZEN. I HAPPEN TO BE A ROMAN CATHOLIC BOTH BY CONVICTION AND IN PRACTICE...
...There are two things hanging over the country today," declared General Motors President Charles E. Wilson. One is a long coal strike; the other, "propaganda in high places that prices are too high and profits excessive." How to stop the "propaganda"? The Wilson recipe: "Have faith. The truth will prevail...
...calls "hammock literature" was reported by one bookstore. Comes the hot weather, they said, and college students start to catch up on their light reading. Arnold Toynbee's "Study of History" was named as a definitely cold weather book, while the sweltering reader picks up P. G. Wodehouse, or Faith Baldwin...
...counter to the Truman foreign policy-and then told Wallace to go ahead, Allen talked fast but vaguely. "Truman had been genuinely fond of Wallace. . . . He was eager to convert Wallace to ... the necessity for firm dealing with the Soviets. . . . So he accepted the Wallace speech, partly on misplaced faith in his Cabinet officer's loyalty to the Administration. . . . After the Wallace speech was delivered, Truman had a horrified awakening. He talked with Wallace at great length and discovered, to his increased dismay, that Wallace's anti-British, pro-Russian views were even more extreme than his speech...
Prayer-Time Rasp. Essentially an unbending faith, Islam resists modernist intrusions with a stubborn orthodoxy. Liberal, rationalist reformers such as Mohamed Abduh and Iqbal on the one hand, and force-loving Mahdists like Mohamed Ahmed on the other, have failed to capture it. Nearly all Moslems still hold the Koran so infallible that all translations are considered heresies. Says Oxford's Islamic Scholar H. A. R. Gibb, in his new book, Modern Trends in Islam: "Liberalism . . . has struck no profound roots in the Moslem mind...