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Niebuhr's strategy of reaching beyond the confines of Detroit's German community helped swell Bethel's membership sixfold in the years after the war. There was another lure: the pastor's preaching. He was, writes Fox, "the educated Protestant's Billy Sunday," who would "strut, gyrate, jerk, bend and quake." Bethel's growing prestige strengthened Niebuhr's hand when he took on Henry Ford, castigating the legendary automaker and other industrialists. He ended up a thoroughgoing Christian Socialist, evoking the biblical prophets and a bit of Marx as he thundered against the exploitation of labor...
...leave a few minutes to respond to anybody’s provocative question or comment that they want to ask.” (As it turned out, the parents had plenty to say; one father yelled out from the audience to call Summers a “jerk...
...aggressive about making investments. "When inevitably you ask me how we manage our cash, I will remind you that we take a long-term perspective," Raymond said to analysts recently. "First, we will not do anything stupid or silly. Secondly, don't expect us to take mechanistic or knee-jerk reactions...
...hopes that by getting more specific, he will show that his opposition isn't being specific at all. "The strategic objective here was to ask Democrats, 'Where's yours?'" says a senior White House aide. "How can they be for protecting the poor and then have a knee-jerk opposition to something that is progressive...
...Lamont 5th floor–The fourth best deuce in the land is the best jerk in the land. The floor-to-ceiling semi-soundproof walls separating each stall create personal cubicles wherein all sorts of “business” goes down. (For my few loyal fans out there, this is indeed the third straight article in which I’ve referenced beating off in Lamont. That’s real...