Word: faithfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wonder if you really mean to imply that the belief in the efficacy of public opinion as an aid to law enforcement is the same as relying "upon the efficacy of a species of faith healing". That seems to be your meaning in your editorial "In Vino Controversiae...
...quote me correctly as saying: "If we can convince the great majority of the people that it (prohibition) is worth enforcing, we need not worry about the possibility of enforcing it". That is what you characterize as belief in the efficacy of a species of faith healing. Continuing, you say: "And it seems to many observers that nothing short of such an act of faith can work the miracle of effective national prohibition...
...Indeed, if faith and loyalty could cure King George, he would rise from his bed today...
...well-grown and perfectly-formed dry cleaning racket. An organization known as the Chicago Master Cleaners' and Dyers' Association had acquired almost a monopoly in Chicago dyeing and cleaning. Members paid a $500 initiation fee and put up a $5,000 bond as a "guarantee of good faith." Bombing, slugging, sabotage, strike-fomenting and other standard methods were used to secure membership; eventually 92 members were lined up. They paid the association a general levy of 2% of gross business. There was also a subordinate organization comprising some 10,000 "little fellows"?i.e., the small neighborhood dyers and cleaners...
...claiming sainthood for Louis XVI as a martyr to the faith, French Catholics are undoubtedly stretching somewhat the historical version of his execution. Louis was primarily a political victim; his life was a standing menace to the security of any thoroughgoing revolutionary regime and as such could not have been spared. But the case of the French Catholics is not so ill-founded as at first blush might appear...