Word: mented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine content. ... In desperate need for God, he will induce modern man in his loneliness and frustration to hunger more and more for membership in a community that will give man enlargement of pur pose, without any need of personal amend ment and without admission of personal guilt...
Maurice Schumann, head of France's progressive Catholic M. R. P. (Mouve-ment Republican-Populaire) made an extraordinary impression at Cleveland-perhaps because he is so young (35) to be a serious contender for the French presidency, perhaps because his appearance and personality so well symbolized his nation's present position. A threadbare grey jacket covered his hunched shoulders; the crystal of his wrist watch was shattered, the frame of his hornrimmed glasses was broken; he looked 20 Ibs. underweight. Yet he was vigorous, concise-and interesting. He said...
...Stertz dragged Betty's bed out of the tent, punched a Her aid-American photographer in the nose, set her brother to giving other newsmen the bum's rush. Fire Department and Health Department officials arrived. So, belatedly, did the embarrassed OPA. Cried Mrs. Stertz: "My base ment is the showplace of Chicago." Betty became a newspaper heroine. The Allied Florists Association sent her flowers, and 25 people offered her better places to stay. But Betty, who had her bed back, decided to stick it out until the OPA brought Mrs. Stertz into line...
...France's Protestant leader Marc Boegner, as the Archbishop of Canterbury prayed for the tearing down of the wall that "separates and divides." Star speaker was Germany's Martin Niemoller*, who made a heartfelt confession of his country's guilt, and at least a partial atone ment for his previous statement that a "good German" does not ask whether or not Germany's cause is just...
Even before Governor Thomas E. Dewey signed New York State's fair-employ ment-practices bill last March (to outlaw race discrimination in jobs), the good, grey New York Times had its eye out for a Negro reporter. Last week it had found one and was breaking...