Word: possessing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...situation is all the more embarrassing because about a year and a half ago when you praised me for having the best Religious School- Jewish or Christian-in the U. S. [TIME, March 11, 1935], you published a picture of me that I do not possess and that looks like a gangster. I am sending you a good picture and want to tell you just what I did say about Preston Bradley. Among other things I said, "We admire him for the enemies that he has made. It is to his eternal credit, for example, that the Hitler Government would...
...thinking-namely that the Dictator and his Communist henchmen have been making too many mistakes. In a tactically sound proclamation J. Stalin gently beat his breast as he cried: "We should not think that if we are members of the Central Committee of People's Commissars we possess all the knowledge necessary to give correct leadership. Rank in itself gives neither knowledge nor experience. We must listen attentively to the voice of the masses and of the rank and file of the party, to the voice of the so-called little people...
...despite his genuine sympathy with the cause of teaching, Governor Hurley has fallen victim to the benighted belief that the clammy hand of authority can root out radical thinking. No authority under the sun possess the power to root out any thinking, whether it be radical or reactionary. Authorities in the Middle Ages tried to root out heresy, only to see it spread like wildfire. The sole force that can root out erroneous thinking is the ultra-violet ray of truth. For "the vicious minorities whose motives are inimical to. . . the principles on which the Republic was founded" will never...
...simply that the Church is against Communism, the theory of which scholarly Pius XI deftly synthesized in four sentences: "The doctrine of Communism was founded on the principles of dialectical and historical materialism previously advocated by Marx, of which the theoreticians of Bolshevism claim to possess the only genuine interpretation. According to this doctrine, there is in the world only one reality, matter, the blind forces of which evolve into plant, animal...
...impression that I wish to correct is that the American of fairly modest means desiring to view the Coronation must first possess himself of a king's ransom, and then be satisfied to sleep on a billiard table, and I am sure that you will be willing to cooperate with me in removing any such impression that your article may have tended to create...