Word: religion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...demand for "action" against the D.A.R., President Truman said that he could not interfere with a "private enterprise." But, the President added testily, "one of the first steps taken by the Nazis when they came to power was to forbid the public appearance of artists and musicians whose religion or origin was unsatisfactory to the 'master race...
When a Communist gets religion, that's news. Last week a Communist...
...other news on the atomic bomb, see Religion...
...many Quebeckers, the disorders seemed justified. The Jehovah's Witnesses are virulent in their attacks on organized religion, are particularly offensive against Roman Catholicism. But more thoughtful Quebeckers well knew that the Witnesses, who thrive on persecution, had made a case for themselves in Canada's Catholic province, had showed the rest of the Dominion that many of Quebec's people subscribe to free speech only up to a point. Said the Toronto Star: "The offensiveness of the Witnesses' methods does not justify people ... in taking the law into their own hands...
Sinatra comes upon a group of kids chasing a Jewish boy named Danny, because, as Danny says: "I got a different religion." Sinatra, taking charge, convinces Tommy, one of the tormentors, that the blood plasma Danny's father gave may have saved the life of Tommy's G.I. dad. Explains Sinatra: "Don't you get what I'm telling you? Religion doesn't make any real difference, except to a Nazi or a dope. . . . My father came from Italy. But I'm an American and should I hate your father, Tommy, because he came...