Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spokesman for the Protestants, Dean Walter Russell Bowie of Union Theological Seminary, began by reminding readers that "Protestantism and Roman Catholicism are both in their own conception interpreters of one and the same gospel- the gospel of God as revealed in Jesus Christ. Furthermore, Protestants can sincerely admire much that Roman Catholicism specifically represents . . . What then . . . are Protestants concerned about...
Unconnected Saucers. A slight intramural argument broke out within the Air Force after two weird and ancient flying machines were found in a tobacco barn eleven miles from Baltimore. An unofficial spokesman who announced happily that they were probably prototypes of the flying saucer was hastily reversed by another spokesman who snapped: "Absolutely no connection...
...four or five years" before enough seeds could be grown, he said, "we expect to have cortisone available in much larger supply from other sources." In the Merck laboratories, the Strophanthus product, sarmentogenin (first isolated in 1915), had already been carefully considered. The synthesis of cortisone from sarmentogenin, a spokesman said, would be "an extremely difficult matter." Its chemical structure is similar to the 17th intermediary product in the current process, he admitted, but that similarity by no means assures that the end-product after further processing will be identical. So far no sarmentogenin, the product of the African plant...
Congo Cardinal? The two traditional seats vacant within the Russian sphere of influence-Prague and Warsaw-may not be filled. Said one Vatican spokesman: "It would be humiliating for the Holy See if those governments delayed or refused exit permits, as they did to Mindszenty, even though it is not absolutely necessary for a newly created cardinal to be present at the consistory." In the particular case of Prague's Archbishop Beran, some Catholic authorities fear that the Communist government would consider his elevation a provocative act, and retaliate by attacking...
...packing his bags again. Since U.S. troops ended his eight-year imprisonment in concentration camps for defying Hitler, the lean, 57-year-old evangelical clergyman and ex-U-boat commander (World War I) has been known in Europe and the U.S. as German Protestantism's most dramatic spokesman. This week he is off to Australia...