Word: gospeleer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Polished Diamond. Eric Johnston may well be the White Knight of U.S. Business. His critics find him just a little too good to be true: too handsome, too smooth, too patently on the make. Like other goodwilling gospelers of "cooperation" he dodges-or does not see-fundamental differences of opinion. In a New York Times Hall debate last week between Johnston and U.A.W.-C.I.O.'s shrewd ideologue, Walter Reuther of Detroit, Reuther proposed that Government continue to regiment business and labor in peace as in war, by a Peace Production Board. Johnston, intent on his gospel of cooperation, failed...
...founder brothers, Daniel and Alexander, were born of poor farmers from the Scottish island of Arran.* Devout Protestants, fervent educators, they were also canny as brook trout. Their first books, cautiously selected for their long-term moral, educational and financial value, included such titles as Elements of the Gospel Harmony, A Guide to the Unprotected in Matters of Property and Income ("by a Banker's Daughter"), Differential Calculus, History of the Book of Common Prayer (of which a revised edition is still on Macmillan's list today...
Said the Rev. Ray Gibbons, the Council's director: "If you regard politics as a Christian responsibility to the State, then we can implement our Gospel with Christianity in action...
Said the New York Sun's Columnist Dave Boone: "It would be fine if everybody, not only the blind, could benefit by the talking Bible, with the records made by painstaking speakers. The way the Gospel is rushed through and mumbled in too many churches, with no more expression than if the most moving passages were something on the back of a railroad ticket, is inexcusable...
Imagine, dear reader, the results accruing from such irresponsibility in reporting the weekly happenings, if such unverified rumors as follow below were to be passed on as the gospel truth...