Word: missouri
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...Congressman). It is tendentious, hostile and superficial, and contains nary a footnote to indicate its sources. Hastily edited, the book is flawed by a number of factual errors and incorrect data. Examples: the book refers to "former Congressman Clem Long"; presumably Maryland Democratic Congressman Clarence Long. It cites Missouri Congressman Richard Boiling for putting his wife on the congressional payroll; she works in his office but is an unpaid volunteer. Senator Mike Mansfield, the book says, served in the House until 1955 (wrong); it adds that he was elected to the Senate in 1952 (right...
...cabbie, often the kind of grouch who would have honked at Lady Godiva for slowing up traffic. But when a recent visitor to Omaha joked with his driver about the city, he was amazed at the rebuttal: a glowing description of Omaha's waterfront development project along the Missouri River. "You should see the barge traffic going through here now," the driver boasted...
Ever since its biennial convention a year ago, the 2.9 million member Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod has been on the brink of a civil war between the supporters of its aggressively orthodox president, Dr. Jacob A.O. Preus, 52, and those of Dr. John Tietjen, 44, the moderate president of the denomination's large, influential Concordia Seminary in St. Louis. The 1971 church convention, acting on its theme "Sent to Reconcile," attempted a kind of Missouri Compromise, supporting Preus in his theological investigation of the St. Louis seminary but leaving the moderates in control of the seminary's governing...
...jeopardize basic Lutheran beliefs. What is in jeopardy, Tietjen believes, is the very existence of the church: "I fear that the issuance of the Preus report has set in motion a course of events after which we won't be able to put the pieces of the Missouri Synod back together again...
...Missouri politics is know for its tenacious and often dirty political campaigns and Eagleton admitted that he had to downplay his Amherst Harvard background during his early campaign. Most of Missuri's politicians are educated in state and I can recall several me occasions where opponents tried to criticize me for my Eastern Establishment academic credentials. While Amherst and Harvard are excellent academic institutions within their own spheres, my schooling was used as ammunition against me, and although I can't say it hurt me, I can't say my New England education helped me with the voters of Missouri...