Word: sermonic
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...ringing doorbells and making speeches for the unsuccessful Senatorial campaign of his discoverer, bald George Zerdin Medalie, when Candidate Roosevelt made his Commonwealth Club address that has since provided Tom Dewey (and the Republican Party) with the text of its sermon for 1940. When he ran against Lehman for Governor, he was up against an opponent faultlessly liberal, mellowed, with no disquieting ambitions. Nevertheless Dewey got in his say on housing, a balanced budget, collective bargaining, unemployment insurance, and told graphic stories of racket-busting in the process...
...worked feverishly over the moribund GOP in Cleveland, June 1936. The patient stirred briefly, collapsed in November. Dreary days followed for the Republican Party. The little flicker of life wavered, almost went out. Yet up-&-down the land plodded one yea-saying, stubborn prophet, preaching Principles, an old-fashioned sermon that was drowned out in the pounding, recurrent crescendos of New Deal swing music...
Attacks were levelled at the Y.A.A. both by the Communist Party of Massachusetts and by the Reverend Walton E. Cole in a sermon in Memorial Chapel yesterday...
...their priests, and refrain themselves, from joining interfaith gatherings, where their presence might seem to condone the heresy that one religion is as good as another. In the U. S. last year, Archbishop John Gregory Murray of St. Paul made an exception to this rule, when he preached a sermon at a men's rally promoted by an Episcopalian. In New Haven, Conn, last Sunday night, a Catholic priest did likewise by appearing at Yale University on equal footing with a Protestant minister...
Lashing out at the present neutrality policy of this country in his chapel sermon on Sunday morning, the Reverend Dr. John Haynes Holmes '02, of the Community Church in New York, issued a clarion call for the people of the United States to unite behind President Roosevelt in a supreme effort for peace in Europe...