Word: wars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...War. The Salvation Army is a religion without elaborate liturgy or complicated creed. Its theology is the simplest practice of Christianity. It proceeds on the down-to-earth theory that Christ gave clear instructions on what to do about the degraded, the abandoned and the poor. And so it has fought-with its heart to God and its hand...
When he mobilized the Salvation Army in 1878, William Booth formally proclaimed a holy war. The enemy was the Devil and all the Devil's allies, particularly strong drink. Booth was after men's souls and his principal weapon was evangelism. The modern army still fights that war; but now its principal weapon is charity...
...army's war on human misery in the U.S. is directed from an up-to-date, $2,500,000, twelve-story building on Manhattan's brash and busy 14th Street which houses both the army's Eastern Territorial and National headquarters. There, a tall, grave, businesslike man named Ernest Ivison Pugmire sits at the command center of a great social welfare program. His brown eyes behind rimless spectacles are the eyes of a gentle, dedicated man. His martial, stiff-collared uniform is the uniform of a militant faith. On the walls of his large, comfortable office hang...
...doctors and dentists. Around the world, preaching salvation in 102 languages, there are only some 125,000 all told in the hosts of the late General William Booth. But like Joshua's army at Jericho, they multiply their strength by sheer ubiquity. Their coffee-&-doughnuts campaign in World War I, which so impressed U.S. doughboys, was carried on by fewer than 300 men and "Sals...
...price of steel by an average of 4%, i.e., $4 a ton. Other steelmen scurried to their adding machines to figure out new price schedules themselves. But by week's end, the other big steelmakers had not yet gone along with U.S. Steel's fourth raise since war...