Word: notted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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For Righteousness. In World War I he was an Army chaplain at Camp Upton, and long before World War II he became an interventionist. Condemning the "sentimental pacifism" of some of his colleagues, he said in 1938: "I am not for peace at any price, but rather for righteousness at...
When the Episcopal General Convention of 1943 set a compulsory retirement age of 72 for bishops, Bishop Manning, then 77, set his jaw, insisted that the convention's ruling could not be retroactive. He promised his parishioners that he would "continue to serve you as your bishop as long...
The National Security Resources Board wanted to know what an atom-bomb attack would do to the city of Washington. Last week the Atomic Energy Commission was ready with an answer. The report did not make pleasant reading for Washingtonians or for the inhabitants of any city that is a...
The AEC does not agree with the theory-advanced by a Navy witness in the Congressional hearings on the Navy's revolt against unification-that atom bombs are not so destructive. They are extremely destructive, said the AEC report. The report considered only the effects of bombs like the...
The AEC does not estimate how much greater damage would be caused by the vastly more powerful bombs developed since those were dropped at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But it hints that an enemy might prefer to explode its bombs underwater to spray Washington with radioactive water. A spray of far...