Word: grahamism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this controversy about Billy Graham's method of getting us to glory land [TIME, July 8] leaves me cold. Catholics and Protestants are nice people, but they'll be so busy checking routes and accommodations that the boat will leave them...
Congress, for many reasons, was not about to take such initiative. Republican Leo Allen of Illinois voiced one sentiment: "My chief reason for being opposed to the bill is that it will cost about $2.4 billion."' Another sentiment: the integration-suspicious feelings of North Carolina Democrat Graham Barden: "There must be something influencing this drastic bill other than the construction of school buildings.'' New York Republican Stuyvesant Wainwright (who eventually voted against the bill) insisted on adding the kiss of death, i.e., a rider (the Powell amendment of last session) withholding federal funds from segregated schools, thereby...
...Democrats in Congress. They want AEC to build and run $210 million worth of atomic power projects, thus set precedent for Government operation of atom plants for consumers. If program is blocked, Democrats threaten to stop some appropriations for AEC, hold up confirmation of newly named AECommissioners John Graham and John Floberg...
...smugly ignorant letters stating to what Billy Graham could convert Catholics are answered by Augustine, Francis of Assisi, Thomas Aquinas, and the endless line of other saints. "Pope and priest" are precisely what Billy is short of-Christ-given authority and Christ-bearing sacraments...
After reading the Letters to the Editor concerning the Billy Graham crusade, I have concluded that hell is a place where Catholics are forced to listen to Billy Graham and Protestants to Fulton Sheen...