Word: sin
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...year-old accountant who got into California politics as a state legislator in 1938, and served four terms in Congress before running for mayor. Against Poulson, an honest but undistinguished politico, Bowron was deprived of a campaign weapon which had served him well in the past: predicting direly that sin and corruption would reign unless he was elected. He campaigned, instead, against the powerful Los Angeles Times, which threw its support to Poulson. By describing Poulson as the "puppet" of Times Publisher Norman Chandler, Fletcher Bowron made the race close-but not close enough. The vote: Poulson 287,619, Bowron...
...Park Street Church after 75 busy years of rescuing fallen women, arranging for the banning of dirty books, and-its more recent concern-keeping police posted on gamblers and bookmakers. New Hampshire Republican Senator Charles Tobey, in fine oratorical voice, showed up to deliver a fiery speech against sin...
...Seven Deadly Sins (Franco-London; Arthur Davis) is a French-Italian production which enlists seven sets of prominent actors, directors and writers in an episodic anatomy of sin. It promises a lot, but never quite lives up to the expectations of its theme and interpreters...
...priests, and some even insist that Victor Emmanuel III, on one of the infrequent occasions when he attended Mass, got mixed up at the holy water font and seemed to think he must wash his hands there. To be a Communist is, by decree of the Vatican, a mortal sin, but in some Italian towns the best place to find the leading Communists together is at Sunday Mass. And Catholics in politics sometimes sound like old Senator Tom Heflin lobbing one of his Confederate cannonballs at "the Pope of Rome" Not until the birth (in 1910) of the political party...
...magnetic pulpit, and Harry Fosdick grew with it. Each morning at 9 he shut himself up in an unmarked office and spent three hours soaking up philosophy and literature in preparation for his Sunday sermons. Christian behavior, not doctrine, was what he preached; he was against materialism and sin, and for the righteous life. But though what he had to say was not startling, he said it with such eloquence, and such a wealth of practical application, that his suburbanite parishioners were stirred and delighted. By the time World War I took him overseas as a Y.M.C.A. worker, Harry Emerson...