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Declaring that "the future of the Christian cause depends on the mobilization of laymen," the committee decided on a secretariat to stir up the laity. Germany's Pastor Martin Niemöller would travel to Australia in the fall; Dr. Marc Boegner, president of the French Protestant Federation, would bring the gospel to South America; Norway's Bishop Berggrav would go to East Asia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Voice of Humanity | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...slow brain, and you can have a nice stew of social and psychological problems. Set the uplift-minded Armorel and the hairy-chested Toughie to living in one of the meanest streets of one of London's slums, and the stew is likely to become too thick to stir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Miscalculated Mission | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...Eastern Toilers' Institute. In 1931, he was made commander in chief of the Chinese Red army, while Mao became political commissar. Chinese peasant legends, gleefully fostered by Communists, attribute superhuman powers to Chu-he could fly, he could see 100 li (33 miles) in all directions; he could stir dustclouds or winds against an enemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Man of Feeling | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

Robert L. Moore, Jr. '49, newly-appointed Harvard representative on the College Opera Council, announced last night a drive to stir up University interest in opera...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Opera Council Starts New Program | 2/3/1949 | See Source »

...this stir was the result of a wideawake promotion by the onetime sleepy cotton industry. In plugging these apparently unimportant items it had a highly important purpose. It hoped to win a nip & tuck race with papermakers for what has usually been one of the biggest markets for U.S. cotton textiles (bags absorbed about 8% of all cotton textile production before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COTTON: A Double Life | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

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