Word: henceforth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...words of St. Paul (Galatians 6:17), "From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus," have led to some speculation that he may have carried the stigmata (Latin for marks...
Harry Truman used some dynamite last week to blast loose at least a part of his civil rights program. At his orders, Solicitor General Philip Perlman, in a speech in New York City, touched off the explosion. Henceforth, said Perlman, the Federal Housing Administration will not insure any loans made on private dwellings which are going to be restricted on the basis of race, creed or color. The policy may affect one-third of all new housing...
...bureaucratic practice, a letter written in English was answered in English, a petition phrased in Afrikaans answered in Afrikaans. Last week the Department of Defense decided to end this haphazard arrangement. Setting a fashion which the whole government is expected to follow soon, the Department decreed that henceforth all its official correspondence will be carried on with strict impartiality-in Afrikaans one month, in English the next...
When the Roman Catholic Church in Czechoslovakia finally bowed to state control (TIME, Nov. 14), the Czech Episcopate managed to make one modest reservation: it inserted a clause in the loyalty oath to the government, which all priests would henceforth have to take, implying that they would not follow orders "contrary to the laws of God or human rights...
...Bevan's precious health service was untouched, except that Britons will henceforth have to pay a shilling (14?) every time they get a prescription filled. Subsidies on fish and animal feed stuffs would end early next year. Conscription was untouched, but Attlee promised that the defense budget would be cut somewhere, somehow, by ?30 million...