Word: religion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Americans by nationality, Jews by religion only . . . The American Council for Judaism asserts for its members that there can be no acceptance of rights or obligations to Israel that are not rights or obligations common to all American citizens...
...elected him to the Party Executive by a whopping vote. For Laborites who thought that Cripps was going ahead too slowly with the Socialist revolution (or that the government was showing too much concern for middle-class and professional support in the 1950 elections), Dalton was intoning the oldtime religion: the cure for what ails Britain is just more Socialism...
...Enemy. Having made this proposition, Rivera burbled happily on: "I am an atheist, that's true, and I think any individual suffering from religion is sick. But . . . I'm not an enemy of Catholics any more than I am an enemy of those suffering from tuberculosis, myopia, paralysis...
This runaway conversation is reported in a book published this week, Children and Religion (Scribner; $2.50). Its author, Dora M. Chaplin, director of religious education at the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer in Chestnut Hill, Mass., cites it as an example of the kind of thing children hate-"the saccharine voice and the tense moments of imposed instruction." Instead, Author Chaplin recommends honest parental example and as little watering down of religious doctrine as possible...
...American Association of University Professors was studying charges that faculty members had been fired for pro-Wallace activity at the University of Georgia, the University of Miami, and Evansville (Ind.) College. Most clear-cut case: the dismissal of young (29) George Parker, an assistant professor of religion and philosophy at Evansville and also county chairman of Citizens for Wallace. Just before he got the sack, Parker had presided at a meeting addressed by Henry Wallace. Explained Evansville's President Lincoln B. Hale: "Owing to Mr. Parker's political activities, both on and off the campus, his usefulness...