Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, May 23, the alert Editor of Religion gave a report of the meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in Richmond, Va. in which he represented with fairness the attitude of Southern Baptists toward the proposed World Council of Churches. In one clause of the opening sentence there is a serious lapsus pennae. Baptists never speak of "the saving grace of baptism." They do not believe that regeneration takes place in water baptism. Regeneration is a spiritual process and not sacramental. Salvation is by grace through faith...
...anxious to learn the reaction of business here toward Roosevelt's gestures toward your business. I think there's a good deal of 'I won't play' among your businessmen, and we do hope business here gets over that attitude. . . . You should remember that the personality of your President is not an argument. It has only an artistic or emotional bearing...
...Congress as it drove toward adjournment last week, the work most momentous for Business and the Nation was being done off the floor, behind the closed doors of conference rooms. Day after the 14 Wages-&-Hours conferees finally pushed back their chairs with a bill ready to be presented to both houses, another joint committee agreed on a $3,753,000,000 version of the Lend-Spend Bill, including two items ($212,000,000 for farm benefits. $1,000,000 for Rural Electrification administrative expenses) which the House would have to vote on separately this week. Meanwhile on the floor...
Actually, the floor and the ceiling would not move toward each other with this progressive precision. From the outset they would be subject to change...
...five utility magnates, headed by James F. Fogarty, president of North American Co., discussed the question of whether the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 needed any revision. Mr. Douglas said no; the magnates said yes. But the two got along well enough for SEC to announce progress toward "a harmonious relationship." Few days later, Chairman Douglas published a statement in The Annalist offering SEC's help in whatever utility recapitalizations may soon be necessary to release $432,000,000 in accumulated unpaid preferred dividends. Finally, though the Senate took Franklin Roosevelt's advice and voted down...