Word: karl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scores of names had already been suggested for their places. Everyone from Chief Justice Fred Vinson to ECA's Roving Ambassador Averell Harriman had been mentioned as a possible replacement for George Marshall. Ex-M.I.T. President Karl Compton suddenly popped into the picture as a possible next Secretary of Defense. As available as Available Jones was Harry Truman's old crony Mon C. Wallgren, who had just lost his job as governor of Washington. And there was even talk of bringing back the old sulphurous, incorruptible Harold Ickes...
Last week, in the pages of the Christian Century, U.S. Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr attacked "continental" theology for having its head in the clouds. His target was the continental theologians' chief spokesman, Karl Barth...
...bearlike Karl Barth of Basel, Switzerland, had jolted the Amsterdam delegates with a speech on the text: Take counsel together and it shall come to naught . . . for God is with us! (Isaiah 8:10). Perhaps, he said, the much-regretted absence of either Roman Catholic or Russian Orthodox delegates was God's doing: "I propose that we should now praise and thank God, that it pleases Him to stand so clearly in the way of our plans." Barth warned the churchmen that their job was to bear witness to the Gospel -not to presume to the world-saving functions...
...words. Sample: "The founder of Christianity was a Communist with eleven faithful apostles, chief of whom* struck a man and his wife dead for keeping back their money from a common pool instead of sharing it. But American legislators, ostensibly Christians, don't read the Bible, much less Karl Marx. They would charge Saint Peter with sedition as well as murder if he were not beyond their reach...
...shallow treatment of the Birth Control Referendum issue in Professor Karl Sax's recent letter leaves several misconceptions in the reader's mind...