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Since 1940 stocky, spectacled Alvin Hansen had commuted weekly from Cambridge to Washington to preach his left-wing economic views. For many years the hierarchy of New Deal officialdom has been fascinated by his contentions that: 1) there was no need to worry about the staggering size of the national debt so long as Government money was spent to create new wealth within the nation (TVAs, slum clearance, etc.); 2) prolific Government spending must be undertaken to level out the valleys in business cycles...
...read Plato and Josephus (in translation) at the age of eight, and taught him Latin at nine. When parishioners called, Father Alger would ask, "What are you going to be, Horatio?" Horatio Jr. would stutter: "I shall be a t-teacher of the ways of God, a p-preach-er of His commandments, a wiberal thinker, a woyal citizen." Schoolmates called him "Holy Horatio...
...pieced together a summary: Kagawa continues to express himself vigorously, sometimes without sufficient data on such touchy questions as the U.S. desecration of Jap bodies. His statements are shrewdly edited and used by the Japanese Government, but he himself has broadcast no anti-U.S. propaganda. Kagawa continues to preach, to organize relief work and to condemn warfare (both Japanese and U.S.). The Albright conclusion : Dr. Kagawa is "an earnest Christian leader who may yet be the hope of Japan...
Facts of Life. He anticipated objections. "You may tell me. that some of the signatories to this charter practice the precise opposite of what they preach even as they sign. ... I reply that the nearer right you may be ... the greater is the need for the new pattern which promises at least to stem these evil tides...
Wherever he went, me Bishop made friends. He learned to preach to Papuan natives in their own tongue. Australians liked his lack of "side." He carefully avoids any hint of the stuffed shirt: "When I was the dean of [Oriel] my colleagues used to write to me as 'the not-very-reverend Dean...