Word: luthers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...black animosity can breed an antidote to its own racial poison. In Chicago, where the white community dismissed Martin Luther King's 1966 civil rights crusade with a hatful of vapid promises, black pocketbook power has become an effective, constructive force. In less than two years, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, 26, a burly, apothegmatizing King lieutenant who praises the Lord and believes in the might of economics, has wrested work from ghetto businessmen for 3,000 of his flock and boosted South Side Negroes' annual income by $22 million...
Board Chairman Andrew Heiskell, its leaders range from David Rockefeller to George Meany, Martin Luther King to New York City Mayor John Lindsay...
...itself the Federation of Priests' Councils, aims to mobilize local priests' groups in efforts to improve the quality of the clergy and speed the pace of reform in the church -and society. To show their ecumenical spirit, the priests closed their two-day meeting by singing Martin Luther's A Mighty Fortress...
They should encourage renaissances and watch out for reformations "If a corporation suffers from a Luther," concludes Jay, "it should start looking for a Loyola." They should search for signs of stagnation and morbidity. Spain started going to pot under Philip II, but the death rattles of empire were not heard until much later. Singer Sewing Machine Corp was sinking the same way in the 1950s says Jay, until Donald Kircher moved in as president and began reviving it. Jay can find a historical analogy for almost everything about the modern corporation. "The boss's secretary," he observes...
...reminded one of those 95 theses Martin Luther nailed on the church door in Wittenberg. On October 16, 280 New Englanders broke with an old faith and returned their draft cards to the U.S. Attorney General's office. After four months, more than 1400 young men have become lowercase protestants...