Word: omaha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last fortnight the United Lutherans met in Omaha and the American Lutherans in Detroit for their biennial conventions, attempted to merge. Between the two groups stood chiefly an argument over the Bible. Both believe it to be the Word of God, but American Lutherans believe it more literally. A joint commission on closer union ("pulpit and altar fellowship") had devised a formula which it hoped both could accept: "By virtue of a unique operation of the Holy Spirit, by which He supplied to the holy writers content and fitting word, the separate books of the Bible are related...
...Willkie speeches fitted into a pattern in which specific legislative and economic proposals alternated with general discussions of Wendell Willkie's basic political views. In Los Angeles he talked of taxation, in San Francisco, of foreign policy, in Portland, of power, in Seattle, labor, in Omaha, the farm problem, in Cleveland, defense, in Pittsburgh, again labor. But between these talks that bore on what he planned to do if elected were reaffirmations of principles-harking back to the pattern of democratic education (Coffeyville), to the position of women in democratic and totalitarian societies (Detroit)-as if he were attempting...
...Omaha two extraordinary Republicans boarded the train. W. W. Waymack, brilliant prize-wanning editor of the Des Moines Register & Tribune, and handsome Representative Clifford Hope of Kansas, ranking minority member of the House Agriculture committee, had come to compound the Willkie farm speech at Omaha. Observers held that the result was in many ways Willkie's most effective speech yet. The theme: that the problems of the farmer, laborer, businessman, investor, consumer are all one problem; that prosperity cannot come to one group only; that the national welfare depends on a unified attack, a unified consideration...
...whopping 20%. A jittery Apartment House Owners Association frightened the city out of accepting a $2,500,000 United States Housing Authority grant for a slum-clearance project. In Detroit, Birmingham, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, rents looked about the same as last year. In Chicago, Cincinnati, Atlanta, Omaha, they were a modest...
...Omaha he tried settling down at his old trade, photography. Then the Geological Survey sent him to explore and photograph the unknown Yellowstone. For the Survey, too, he photographed the cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde. To study and photograph railroads he got himself sent around the world, crisscrossed Europe, northern Africa, southern Asia, almost circumnavigated Australia, almost froze to death on a winter journey from Vladivostok to Moscow. Quieter now, he paints massive murals of the western mountains when he isn't tossing off smaller oils...