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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spate of reports, some buttressed by "informed circles" in France, all adding up to the suggestion that Marshal Pétain was fed up with Nazi Puppet Pierre Laval, and anxious to set himself aright with anti-Nazi Frenchmen and the Allies. Finally, a Geneva newspaper published the text of the speech Pétain never made-a document purporting to promulgate a return to democratic government. At week's end, an aurora borealis of rumors flamed from Vichy, Berlin, Madrid, Berne, Stockholm, French Africa: Pétain had abdicated, he remained in office; he lay stricken with heart...
Franklin Roosevelt, six years ago the object of grammarians' tuts for his liking for "like" in the wrong places, escaped another tutting by a blue pencil's stroke. Conning ahead of time the text of a minor Roosevelt speech, New York Times Pundit Arthur Krock encountered "like in many cases," quickly phoned a Presidential aide. The President, reached in time, made...
Into the pulpits of the 3,780 parishes of the United Lutheran Church last Sunday stepped 3,780 pastors to preach from the same text: "There remaineth yet very much land to be possessed...
With this text from Joshua, the biggest of the 17 groups of Lutherans in the U.S. marked its silver jubilee. The United Lutheran Church is the result of the 1918 merger of Northern and Southern branches separated at the Civil War. Last week the group, looking back over a quarter of a century, noted a 58% increase in membership, from 1,051,815 in 1918 to 1,666,004 today...
...title ("if Holy Joe can go out there, who are we to be holding back?") seemed to be addressed to the U.S. Post Office itself. Said the ad's text: "Chaplains have . . . acquired a new breadth of both understanding and tolerance from their daily contacts with [men in the armed forces]. . . . That's what we have sensed from the letters we have had from chaplains telling us of the tremendous morale-value of copies of Esquire...