Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...changed its character considerably. Kansas City grew big and rich on the nation's appetite for meat and bread and for the West's desires for the East's calicos and gadgets. But Kansas City also grew famed among U.S. cities for its sin. The cow town became a little Paris, a wide-open playground for cattlemen, drummers, oil wildcatters, and-somewhat later-glad-handing U.S. conventiongoers...
...large sections of the non-Christian world, suicide was and is often accounted an honorable act. Christianity, which believes that every human life belongs to its Creator, has always regarded suicide as a sin. The so-called Christian world of today, sadly confused on matters of life & death, gives lip-service to Christian belief but takes its hat off and stands to attention before a deed of pagan virtue. This confusion was well illustrated last week by Unitarian Minister A. Powell Davies of Washington, D.C., who hailed Jan Masaryk's self-destruction as a hero's act. Wrote...
...other speech was by Czechoslovak Prime Minister and Communist Boss Klement Gottwald; it was filled with cynical distortions and unconcealed hate. Said he: "I can prove to you that Jan Masaryk clearly and without compromise agreed with the action program of the new government. . . . This was his unforgivable sin in the eyes of the enemies of the republic. We have seen for ourselves how the press of the West started an organized campaign against Jan Masaryk...
Department underlings had proposed Harry Martin of Memphis, anti-Communist president of the C.I.O. American Newspaper Guild, as a delegate. But he had been turned down by higher-ups as a radical. His sin: in 1938 he had given a small sum to the Southern Conference for Human Welfare. Martin told the New York Herald Tribune that his name "had been taken to the top three times but that the answer was 'no' each time...
...priests assigned to preach Lenten sermons, the Pope declared that Italians who failed to vote in the coming elections (see FOREIGN NEWS) were sinners. "He who abstains . . ." he said, "especially for indolence or for cowardice, commits thereby a grave sin and mortal fault...