Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pinned Medals of Merit (Civilian equivalent of the D.S.M.) on ex-Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. and Deputy Petroleum Administrator Ralph K. Davies...
Behind these best-sellers trailed other novels of unquestionable sales-merit. In a world of uneasy consciences, the problems of man's fate and faith were almost as marketable as adultery. Notable were Bruce Marshall's The World, the Flesh and Father Smith (in which the wise innocence of a Catholic priest prevails against the world-his parish-and the flesh-the problems of his parishioners); James Hilton's So Well Remembered, a simple Englishman's struggle between good (his principles) and evil (his wife); James Ramsey Ullman's The White Tower, in which...
Controversy over the relative merit or harm of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's actions and policies may use up many future hours of learned discussion, not to mention those already spent...
...also supplied the foreword ("Whenever I have tried to compass the thought of mankind as possessing relevance to the eternal spheres, it has become clearly evident to me that the Earthman was choiring his way. . . . The prisms of chance do not allow too great an opportunity for merit or renown; they revoke the essential, and persuade mankind into linear aspects such as the ulterior powers descry for illusive dedications."). More surprising is a second foreword by William Ewart Gladstone, disembodied but still magisterial in the beyond...
President Juan Antonio Rios of Chile dropped into Manhattan to dedicate raffish Sixth Avenue as the Avenue of the Americas. He also decorated old friend Nelson Rockefeller, ex-Assistant Secretary of State, with Chile's Order of Merit, threw himself into an all-out Latin embrace that tickled Father John D. pink (see cut). Then he headed for Hollywood...