Word: preaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fortunate are U. S. Episcopalians to have as their presiding bishop in such a crisis the Right Rev. Henry St. George Tucker, Bishop of Virginia. Lanky, practical Bishop Tucker spent 24 years as a missionary in Japan, eleven of them as Bishop of Kyoto, still claims he can preach more fluently in Japanese than in English...
What are our people thinking of in opposing the selective draft as a means of an immediate enlargement of our armed forces? . . . To preach "peace" now, to hinder in any way a sensible, reasonable, immediate enlargement of our forces, reveals downright ignorance, selfishness, cowardice or duplicity...
...British Catholic soldier, sailor and aviator (2,250,000 in all) a personally blessed crucifix of bakelite (to save metal) with the crucified figure "sunk into the cross so that it can't catch in the wearer's uniform." Then Cardinal Kinsley went on the air to preach a holy war against the Nazis...
Nazi Agent. The job assigned Reporter Racusin was to investigate Gerhardt Alois Westrick, suave German lawyer who once represented many U. S. firms in Germany and who went to the U. S. last April in a new role (officially commercial counselor to the German Embassy), to preach Nazi trade propaganda to his U. S. business friends (TIME, July...
...while the band blared his theme song Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho! It's Back to Work We Go, Republicans cheered, balloons and confetti rained down from the galleries. Said Wendell Willkie, shaking his big head: "Forty-eight days, and only forty-eight days ago, I started out to preach to the American people the doctrine of unity, the doctrine of the destiny of America. . . . The cause is great. We must win. We cannot fail if we stand together in one united fight." Added Mr. Willkie of Elwood, Ind.: "Now I'm going to sleep for a week...