Word: fives
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Only five of the 500 knew the answers to all twelve questions; every colonial official in the sampling flunked the test. One Frenchman thought that the Mississippi was the longest river in the French empire. Guesses on the empire's population ranged from 30 million to 300 million. A parliamentary undersecretary located the French Atlantic island of Marie Galante as "near Tahiti," which is in the Pacific...
Major subject on the Universalist agenda was the perennial plan for merger with the Unitarians, who were also feeling cramped by Christian creeds. In the current issue of the Unitarian Christian Register, 127 Unitarian ministers of New England endorsed a five-point statement of faith. Said the Rev. Dilworth Lupton of Waltham, Mass.: "Behind the statement is our conviction that religion resembles art; it is bigger than any of its manifestations. And the conviction, too, that our Unitarian churches should be fellowships where, as in art centers, people holding various theories could come together for common enrichment...
...Lupton's five points: ¶ We believe in universal religion which is greater than any of its present organized expressions at their best, greater than Hinduism, Judaism, or Christianity. ¶ We believe in a universal church where theists, humanists, Christians, Jews and all religious truth-seekers may come together, each contributing to the common enrichment of their church. ¶ We believe in the development of this universal religion in order to break down today's tensions and so forward the sense of world community . . . ¶ We believe in the right of each individual to his own convictions...
...Point Four program by itself, said Schram, "is unsound and illogical" because "it sings the virtues of new investments so long as they are made outside the U.S." What's needed, said he, is a Point Five-"tax changes that will apply the principles of a 'bold new program' . . . both here and abroad...
John R. Lotz, chairman of Manhattan's Stone & Webster, announced the plan for Persia. In five bound volumes of 1,250 pages, O.C.I, provided the King of Kings with a blueprint for economic revolution, and U.S. and Western European businessmen with a guide to a vast new area of relatively untapped markets...