Word: missouri
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thus we in the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod are left with liberty of interpretation in these two areas until he arrives at a decision...
...sometimes took pains to work smoothly with other federal investigative agencies. For example, the CIA informed these agencies of its surveillance of Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, Representative Claude Pepper of Florida, former Representative Cornelius E. Gallagher of New Jersey and the late Senator Edward Long of Missouri. At other times, however, there was friction among the agencies. FBI agents once discovered that a Manhattan-based CIA man was in close touch with a Pittsburgh Mafia chief who was being probed by the FBI. The FBI protested so vehemently that the CIA operative was sent to Italy until...
Among the targets of CIA surveillance, TIME has learned, were Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, former Democratic Representative Cornelius E. Gallagher of New Jersey, Democratic Representative Claude Pepper of Florida and the late Democratic Senator Edward V. Long of Missouri. A high CIA official, responding to a TIME inquiry, denied that the agency had kept any kind of watch on these public men. But other sources insisted that the surveillance had been conducted...
...predict a turnaround. Last fall's elections drastically changed the makeup of many state legislatures. They now contain about 28% more women and a majority of Democrats. Both of these groups-outside the South-tend to be pro-ERA. Of those states considered good prospects, Missouri should be the first to act, with a vote expected as soon as the legislature convenes in January. Other states likely to vote in the next six months: Illinois, North Carolina, North Dakota, and Oklahoma. According to a poll taken by the League of Women Voters, 52% of the legislators in nine states...
Clearly there are two sets of assumptions at work in Bible criticism. Like a Missouri Synod mother who insists that God "would not give us a book with errors," the literalists insist that an omniscient and loving God would give the world an absolutely inerrant Bible. Today's liberals, on the other hand, recognize and generally emphasize the human, historical factor in the Bible's composition?a view that goes much farther in explaining its apparent contradictions and deficiencies. Believing critics argue?and experience has sometimes shown?that rigid faith is the most vulnerable to complete destruction. In their view...