Word: niebuhrs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME'S cover this week is Reinhold Niebuhr (see RELIGION). Many editors would not consider him news. In the headline sense, he says nothing "sensational." Yet Niebuhr is conducting an inquiry that may turn out to be more important to the 20th Century than the United Nations Assembly or any investigation by the Senate. For decades large segments of the Christian churches shied away from theology; God was "a lurking luminosity, a cozy thought." Against the current of his day, Niebuhr pursues a quest into the nature of God, of man, of sin. What Niebuhr thinks has a profound...
Just 25 years ago, TIME'S first cover subject was "Uncle Joe" Cannon, Speaker of the House of Representatives, symbol of a kind of bossism that was dying. Uncle Joe's retirement was a good if obvious choice of a cover subject. By TIME'S standards, Niebuhr is just as truly news as Uncle Joe. That Niebuhr's significance is less obvious does not make him less important...
...like the people in Europe. It used to be you could get into a fight, but now even truck drivers take the attitude: 'If you wanna hit me, hit me.'" The bulk of TIME'S news subjects, however, are not in the same category with the Niebuhr story or "The Last Traffic Jam." They are precisely the same as those that confront all editors: Congress, the presidential campaign, the national defense, the European Recovery Program, international conferences, upheavals abroad, the United Nations, Peron's policy, China's war, the state of U.S. business, major crime...
...written and edited by the regular staffs of the section in which they appear. Certain cover stories, that present special difficulties or call for a special literary skill, are written by Senior Editor Whittaker Chambers. Some Chambers cover stories: Marian Anderson, Arnold Toynbee, Rebecca West, this week's Niebuhr story...
...newly-elected 40-odd-man national board encompasses all of labor minus the Harry Bridges-led splinter of the CIO as well as the young men in the Democratic Party and the now minority-representation of independent liberal citizens. Here enter Reinhold Niebuhr, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., ex-housing expediter Wilson Wyatt, and movie star Ronald Reagan. Eleanor Roosevelt looms a power behind the scenes. This total coalition's impressiveness stems from the fact that it is influence mobilized with the sole immediate political end of isolating Henry Wallace. To do this job and to elect congressmen who meet "progressive...