Word: standpoint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tampa only 350. At a major rally in St. Petersburg, he was introduced by one of his candidates for delegate, former Governor Millard Caldwell, who made it clear to newsmen that he could hardly care less. Said Caldwell: "Stevenson is not the most satisfactory candidate from my standpoint or Florida's standpoint, but he is the strongest possible Democratic candidate...
...From the standpoint of the church, nothing in the Catholic press is official except the quoted pronouncements of its hierarchy. "A Catholic paper," editorialized America recently, "is not a little Pravda." Many of the diocesan papers tend to reflect their bishops' views, but even that does not always give such views religious weight. Though editors are supposed to apply a spiritual yardstick in making their worldly judgments, the Catholic press proves in practice to be catholic-not only diverse in its views but sometimes so bitterly at odds in its own fold that Bishop Dwyer cautioned last week: "There...
...dealing successfully with this problem derives very largely from the fact that the Arabs believe that the United States is, in the last analysis, dominated by domestic political considerations . . . I can say that it is the determination of this Administration to deal with the problem purely from the standpoint of the best interests of the United States, and to deal on a basis . . . of friendly impartiality...
...Gravelot Jr., one of the Roman Catholic backers of the proposed segregation bill, promptly announced the "we intend to go ahead with it, certainly." Governor-nominee Earl Long (a Baptist) said that he felt that the archbishop was "a little too advanced." Nevertheless, he added, "from a religious standpoint, he is undoubtedly right." The archbishop was undoubtedly also going to have...
Pusey cited Harvard's situation as an example of the financial problems confronting most colleges and universities. Although the University is the wealthiest in the country from the standpoint of endowment, he observed that this was not necessarily true in terms of its operating costs. Operating expenses last year came to nearly $42,000,000, while contributions from corporations and corporate foundations during the same period totalled only...