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...days ago, at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery, a group of Massachusetts women posed for a news photographer in kneeling posture [as they] prayed publicly for the defeat of the Lend-Lease Bill. . . . What was the manifest purpose of this prayer meeting? Publicity, propaganda. ... It is high time that the church protested against the use of prayer as propaganda. If any man or woman believes in God and in prayer and is convinced by his conscience that the passage of the Lend-Lease Bill would constitute a calamity to the human race...
...trio of Willetts, Burgy Ayres, and George Duane, can be depended on to give a good account of itself, but the way the other two lines perform will be a question mark until the end of the game. If the Sophomores keep on showing the improvement that has been manifest in recent games, and if Gordie McGrath's legs hold up, the Crimson will not give a bad account of itself...
Glad-handing Senator William Howell Smathers of New Jersey popped up in the U. S. Senate last week to introduce a resolution reminiscent of the long-dead concept of Manifest Destiny.* The resolution: to admit Cuba as a State into the Union. The Senator's pop-up was unfortunate for Good Neighborism. In Havana a gang of youths hurled bottles through the plate-glass windows of a Woolworth 5-&-10? store with notes in the bottles saying: "Down with the American Senate!" "This reply to the American Senator!" In Madrid the Falangist newspaper Arriba seized upon the resolution...
...technical impediment be thrown in the way of our Americanizing Central America. Humanity, Philanthropy and Christianity demand that it should be at no distant day. Such is our Manifest Destiny."-Representative Thomas Lilbourne Anderson of Missouri...
...Function. "The Church has the duty and the right to speak, not only to its members but to the world, concerning the true principles of human life. . . . The Church, as we know it, does not. . . . We, therefore, urge that enterprises be initiated whereby that life can be made manifest...