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...become urbanized and industrialized. "In most centers of population today, the 'strong' Protestant churches are typically in the suburbs, where they have about the same influence on the city's morals as the commuter has on its politics." Meanwhile, as the cities have come to sway the life of the rest of the country, the Roman Catholic Church has grown rapidly in influence. "One might almost write the story of that communion during the half-century in terms of the transformation of its state of mind from that of a minority to that of a majority church...
...picture, cried one farm editor last week, "is a one-sided political editorial . . . a clever attempt to use the movies to sway public opinion ... [it is] making history in the field of farm politics." Does it mean, he went on to ask, that the movie industry "is going to bat to knock the Government out of agriculture?" "The cartoon," said Satirist Sutherland, "was not aimed specifically at the . . . Brannan Plan, but if the shoe fits, they can wear...
...Harvard men are tip-top, natural, real he-men who displayed themselves as thoughtful...the best college group I've ever encountered in any of my American tours," the Canon said. "I'm sure I didn't sway all of them, but we parted with mutual respect...
...form of sending either funds to buy food or the foodstuffs themselves. Although Titoist Yugoslavia is a Communist dictatorship of the most unsavory sort, Yugoslavia is also a diplomatic oddity well worth preserving. She is a Communist nation that has escaped the Russian orbit. As such she may sway other Communist nations, such as China, to the view that there is a third relationship with Western nations besides clearcut alliance or clearcut opposition...
Stalin's defeat in Korea would not prevent him from trying again-whenever he saw an opportunity to extend the Kremlin's sway. But Korea would almost certainly make Stalin more cautious about further adventures. Korea had looked like a sure thing, and it had blown up in Stalin's face...