Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Connally's first act as Congressman was to vote (after prayer) for war with Germany. His next was to join the Army, as a captain. This time the Armistice thwarted his ambition to fight. He was re-elected regularly to the House until 1928, when he campaigned courageously against the Ku Klux Klan and for Al Smith, and went to the Senate. He became Foreign Relations chairman...
...Benedictine Rule. St. Benedict's treatise for his monks is concerned with three things: labor, prayer and self-denial. Work is the first step toward holiness. Monks are to be "wearied with labors for God's sake." Prayer should be brief "and with purity of heart, except it be perchance prolonged by the inspiration of divine grace." The whole Psalter must be recited each week, "for we read that our holy Fathers were strenuous enough to fulfil in a single day this task which I pray that we lukewarm folk may complete in the whole week." St. Benedict...
Toronto's moderately Conservative Saturday Night, summed up Mr. Bracken's position: "His nightly prayer must be a desperate petition that his less restrainable followers be stricken dumb until the Halifax speech is forgotten. If they can only be kept quiet there is a possibility that the question of whether Canada should enter into a sort of consultative alliance with other nations of the Commonwealth may be considered in an atmosphere of reason, free from the exaggerations of an electoral campaign...
...trout. Their first books, cautiously selected for their long-term moral, educational and financial value, included such titles as Elements of the Gospel Harmony, A Guide to the Unprotected in Matters of Property and Income ("by a Banker's Daughter"), Differential Calculus, History of the Book of Common Prayer (of which a revised edition is still on Macmillan's list today...
Democrat Abe Murdock of Utah thrust like a shark at this vulnerable opening. "I know it is the prayer in his heart, and it is the prayer in the heart of every other good, old, stand-pat Republican in the United States today . . . that Franklin D. Roosevelt would eliminate himself from politics and give them at least a shadow of a chance to bring in the Grand Old Party again. But I say to them . . . the American people still want Roosevelt...