Word: wesley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Coach: Wesley E. Fesler...
...first year since the trustbusting days of Roosevelt I and Taft (Standard Oil, American Tobacco, Northern Securities, etc.) in which the Government has put on a real Sherman Act show. It is also a year of war, whose outbreak, in the words of Assistant Attorney General Thurman Wesley Arnold, "was immediately followed . . . by an outbreak of funeral orations over anti-trust enforcement." But last week No. 1 Trustbuster Arnold gave the Sherman Act the liveliest week of its liveliest year. As the funeral orations grew louder and more insistent, he danced the aging law away from its grave, through...
Revivals are as much a phenomenon of U. S. civilization as quilting bees or rail splitting. Georgia has been a revivalist stronghold ever since pioneer Evangelists John Wesley and George Whitefield saved souls there in the 1730s. But lately revivals have not done so well, even in Georgia. Few years ago famed Old Salem Campground, 32 miles southeast of At lanta, a scene of Methodist evangelistic meetings since 1828, had to turn interdenominational to survive. Last week, as it wound up a rousing ten-day camp meeting, Salem seemed to have hit the sawdust trail for a comeback...
...Cadman Colwell of the University of Chicago's Divinity School: "You can't establish the Christian position in relation to conscription by quoting isolated passages from the Bible. ... I long ago stopped using proof-text to justify conduct." Director Paul Burt of the University of Illinois' Wesley Foundation told a pious anecdote about a proof-text layman who turned to the Bible for guidance in his life work, opened it at random to "Judas went and hanged himself." On his second try the alarmed layman hit on "Go thou and do likewise...
Thus every hour on many a U. S. radio station the American Tobacco Co. spreads the suggestion of aromatic tobacco auction rooms. Last week Thurman Wesley Arnold's pugnacious Anti-Trust Division charged that in the auction rooms it smelled, besides tobacco, monopoly. The marketing systems for leaf tobacco, said the Arnold indictment, "have been deliberately designed to enable [the companies] to dominate and dictate terms to growers. . . ." It charged six U. S., two British tobacco companies and their executives with criminal guilt...