Word: religion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sunday Congressman Keogh of New York and Congressman Poage of Texas announced: "We want to find out for ourselves about freedom of religion in Spain." They attended services at a Protestant church; a third visitor went to a synagogue; a fourth went to Catholic Mass. "What was your impression?" inquired suave Merry del Val. Replied the Congressmen: "We are going to have a talk with certain correspondents back in Washington." They obviously referred to correspondents who, they thought, had exaggerated religious suppression in Spain...
...Religion has its churches, psychoanalysis has its couches--group work in psychology needs the stage of the psychodrama," J. L. Moreno, developer of the psychodrama declared at the dedication of the Psychological Clinic's new theater yesterday...
...principles of religion, that is of the true religion, are or are not fact. Christ did not live on earth, establish a Church, instruct His disciples to "go forth and teach all nations" if He did not at the same time give them Truth to teach. If any church has that truth and can prove it, as can the Catholic Church, then it is not a question of whether or not the individual can or cannot believe it; for the truth never changes...
Civic enterprise was a desperate necessity and almost a religion. Mellon told his friends: "Don't let business interfere with your civic enterprise...
...months, the respected Macon News and Sunday Telegraph-News ran 153 headlines identifying Negroes with violence or lawbreaking; in the same period, in 801 stories about white lawbreakers, only four headlines mentioned their color. The council's conclusion: "Crime is peculiar to no race, religion or national group. [Mention race only if] this information is a relevant part of the news." Relevant: NEGRO RIGHT TO PRIMARY VOTE UPHELD. Irrelevant: NEGRO ACCUSES WIFE OF STOVE-THROWING. Some Northern newspapers might copy...