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There he built a new church, retired each morning to an office building to write his sermons, wrote with a vigorous accent that attracted big congregations. During World War I he went overseas with the Y.M.C.A., helped to stir up war sentiment as a lecturer for the British Ministry of Information. After the war, Baptist Fosdick was called to Manhattan's rich, influential First Presbyterian Church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Open-Shop Parson | 3/15/1943 | See Source »

Confusion multiplied last week, and politics lent a hand to stir the confusion. The House Military Affairs Committee launched a bill forbidding induction of heads of families until all single men, all childless married men in each respective state had been called. A rider forbade induction by occupational groups, played hob with McNutt's plan to force nonessential workers into war industries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANPOWER: Muddled Draft | 3/1/1943 | See Source »

Since the Episcopal Church's Commission on Approaches to Unity recommended the plan five years ago (after mulling it over for half a century), high churchmen have flatly opposed it. Among Presbyterians the plan has created less stir, but in the main liberals have liked it, conservatives have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: New York v. Canterbury | 2/22/1943 | See Source »

...Jungeblut and Dr. Dalldorf hoped their "preliminary observations" would at least stir many a mouse-tolerant householder to action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Two Bad Mice | 2/22/1943 | See Source »

...Timesman wrote: "Not by a single word did she show any awareness that the rights of innocent passage and free landing . . . must and would be reciprocally agreed as between sovereign nations." Henry Wallace answered his detractor: "I am sure the vast bulk of the Republicans do not want to stir up animosity against either our Russian or English Allies. . . ." In Detroit, Poet Carl Sandburg interrupted a Lincoln Day speech: "I'm sorry for anybody who talks of 'globaloney'. . . ." Eleanor Roosevelt could not resist. Said she: "Well, are we going to have a peaceful world or aren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Globaloney | 2/22/1943 | See Source »

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