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Actually, the 15 have been in prison since last December. The government kept mum until everything had been properly arranged. Then the Deputy Foreign Minister Topencharov announced that all of the accused had "fully confessed" to the old familiar charges: treason, black-marketeer-ing and espionage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLICIES & PRINCIPLES: War on Faith | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

What were President Weizmann's hopes for the new state? That "God will look down benignly on His children who after a long wandering have come home to serve Him with a psalm on their lips and a spade in their hands." He was also wistfully hop ing that Israel might still find its way back to friendship with his old love, Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: With Psalms & Spades | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

...club met in Leverett House that night and chalked a magic circle on the floor. They drew cabalistic signs on the walls and in the air, following an ancient recipe. Everyone stood on the circle, for it wasn't safe to be outside. Accord- ing to the script, all this should make the devil appear, usually in the form of a goat or a butterfly...

Author: By John J. Back, | Title: 'Spooks Club' Will Travel South to Find a Ghost | 12/11/1948 | See Source »

...this stripe have yet to articulate in compact, coherent fashion a conservative declaration of faith, and probably because of popular misconceptions concern- ing the meaning of conservatism, this is a job to be left to the professors. But their speeches and their votes indicate that they understand true conservatism and are prepared to work for it in practical ways--voting for extensions of social security, Federal aid to education, social development of natural resources. Instead of opposing all social legislation out of hand they are, most of them, always thinking up something new, using a new mechanism (i.e. the federal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cherington Sees Need for Revision In Republican Goals and Strategems | 11/16/1948 | See Source »

...appraisal of his individual virtue, the U.S. citizen thinks pretty well of himself. No less than 91% asserted that they were "honestly try[ing] to live a good life," with 44% of these declaring that they were conscious of the spiritual struggle "almost all the time." On this score, many admitted that the going is tough; a majority thought that it is harder to love one's neighbor now than it was in the time of Christ ("Today it's every man for himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Americans & God | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

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