Word: oned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...against being "dazzled" by slogans about separation of church and state, and similar "glittering generalities," he said: "Our people are in a very precarious position thanks to the extremely hard, though evil work, which contemporary anti-Catholics have done . . . The damage they are accomplishing in creating prejudice on the one hand and uneasiness on the other is very considerable indeed...
When he was a child, Francis Forgione was noted among the villagers of Pietrelcina, Italy for his piety. No one was surprised when he became a Capuchin monk and in due time was ordained a priest under the name Padre Pio-Father Pius. He developed tuberculosis, but continued his priestly duties, though he sometimes fell into ecstatic trances while saying Mass. During one trance, in 1918, Padre Pio collapsed and had to be carried unconscious from the church. Those who examined him found bleeding wounds in his hands and feet and a wound in his side "such as produced...
...analysis made with Dr. S. H. Clayton, also of Dallas, Dr. Moyer found that 40,000 to 50,000 Americans get cancer of the stomach every year. Only one-tenth of the victims are operated on, and he believes that half the surgery patients die from the operation...
...suitable cases, for surgery. If operated on in time, there would be high hope for the majority of them. But the surgery available in most parts of the country is not good enough: although half the patients now die, there are "islands" in this sea of mortality where only one patient out of 20 dies. Among such islands: the Mayo Clinic, University of Minnesota Hospital and Manhattan's Memorial Hospital...
...consistent plea for economy in government. Said he: "The $15 billion budget of 1949-50 for our department will be reduced in 1950-51 to $13 billion . . . and our defenses will be appreciably improved. There will be less waste, less duplication, and more efficiency-and the taxpayer will get one dollar's worth of defense out of every dollar spent." From ECAdministrator Paul G. Hoffman there was another encouraging report: the cold war was about half won, he said. But, he cautioned, "it is the easiest half that lies behind...