Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secretary Byrnes displayed staunch faith in MacArthur. According to obviously inspired dispatches from his headquarters, MacArthur was ready to step out if a really controlling control council should move in on Tokyo. No such thing being yet in sight, he calmly continued the ordeal which Japan must undergo before she can re-enter the comity of nations...
...converted Communist was the managing editor of Communism's U.S. mouthpiece, the Daily Worker. Louis Francis Budenz, 54, ten years after becoming a Communist, announced that he had rejoined the Roman Catholic "faith of his fathers." He forthwith attended the baptism and confirmation of his ex-Unitarian wife and his three children, and was off to Notre Dame to be assistant professor of economics. As a teacher he hopes to "show up Communism in theory and practice." Said Budenz: "Communism, I have found, aims to establish a tyranny over the human spirit; it is in unending conflict with religion...
Convert Budenz, whose excellent record as a labor organizer includes 21 arrests, issued a statement that sounded like a long sigh of relief: "Reason and faith have led to this happy step. . . . The privilege of returning to the sacraments is one to be deeply prized; it is, after a long journey, the true returning home...
...know what we're paying for. . . . Thousands of [Dr. Stoddard's] future students believe in the objective validity of [original sin and hell]. . . . He will evidently try to dispossess his charges of their feeble-mindedness." Said the Bishop: the new president should make a profession of faith. Replied Dr. Stoddard, who will not take office until next July: "We need more religion rather than more theologies. . . . Frankly, I should be much happier if the Bishop and his group read the whole book . . . the tone . . . is intensely religious...
This time the 'Poonsters suspected fraud. They hastened to cash both checks. Their faith in humanity was restored, but the only mail the hapless lass ever received from the funnymen was cancelled check stubs...