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...Protestantism is gaining members. It is collecting more money from them, too, and the average contribution for the collection plate is up. Last fortnight Everyone, Presbyterian quarterly, published the United Stewardship Council statistics for 1945.† Reports from 18 top Protestant denominations showed a net membership gain over 1944: 563,866 (2.2%); increase in gifts: $62,997,968 (14.9%); increase in per capita contributions...
Religion v. Materialism. Solon Barnes is a Quaker, brought up in unworldliness. He marries (for love) into a richer family of Friends and becomes a Philadelphia banker. For many years he floats along on uneasy rationalizations about the sacred stewardship of wealth (which he honestly tries to live up to). When his associates mire themselves and their bank deeper & deeper in crooked, within-the-law self-interest, he can stay silent no longer. In part the novel is a study of the losing struggle between the moribund U.S. religious sense and proliferating U.S. materialism...
...Douglas MacArthur's first detailed account of his stewardship in Japan and Korea ran to some 100,000 words and had the usual MacArthur attributes. It read well; detailed facts punctuated its sweeping perspective. And it boiled down to one basic fact: General MacArthur had done a bang-up job of occupying Japan...
Fleet Admiral King used his final report on his four-year stewardship* to labor his contention that unity of command in Washington would have done nothing to shorten...
...forgeries, theft, fraudulent bookkeeping, and companies which existed only in Kreugers imagination. As trustee of the bankrupt International Match Corp., an American concern and biggest of 140-odd subsidiaries of the huge holding company, A/B Kreuger & Toll; Irving Trust submitted its final, 171-page report on its stewardship. The box score...