Word: gospeleer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...work is done by others. A saucy baby, it even approached giant Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing, got it to take subcontracts. The Treckers (Father Theodore and four sons) are so hepped on subcontracting that Sons Joseph and Francis went to Washington a year ago to preach the gospel (TIME...
Excitement Sirs: Hell broke loose over WSOY on this unusual Sunday afternoon . . . after the Kings Gospel Quartet had finished singing in our big studio. . . . Solid, red-faced Charlie Bruce was in the control room running a transcription of Chuck Foster and his orchestra while I sat quietly in the adjoining studio wondering how I would announce the next tune. We were in the middle of Blue Champagne when Bob Bruner, hat & coat on, dashed into the control room, waving a foot-long strip of teletype paper. Before I could get out of my chair, Charlie Bruce had pulled the control...
...peace on earth or goodwill to the Axis can or should be the stated policy of the United States Government. We are at war with fascism, and we will fight until we have defeated it completely, in war and in peace. But there is an alternative reading of the gospel: "Peace on earth to men of good will." As long as this hope exists, the men of good will can continue to work for a world in which peace is possible. And such men are only at peace when nowhere in the world is there war, or scarcity, or oppression...
...half minute, a minute at a time, got furious telephone calls from people too excited about the game to become excited about anything else. In Denver, when a religious hour was canceled, one man called station KFEL to ask if it considered the war news more important than the gospel. Nowhere did the straight radio reports of terrific bombing at Honolulu-of Jap pilots diving over the beautiful mountains to fire U.S. ships and kill U.S. men-create anything resembling the panic created three years ago by Orson Welles's famed faking of a Martian invasion...
These 30 leaders condemned isolationism as "contrary to the Christian Gospel," chided America for its "selfish withdrawal from world community in the past." They endorsed peace objectives similar to those already endorsed by a number of other church groups, but went much further than any other church group has yet ventured in proposing teeth for the postwar organization of nations. Said they...