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Against Rome, Luther denied the church's administration over God's grace -either to grant it or withhold it. Not church, he held, but scripture is the true channel of grace-the Word and man's will lead to faith, and faith in Jesus Christ will redeem man from his sins. So sure did he feel of "justification by faith" that in his translation of the Bible he dared to insert the word "alone"' on his own authority. Against what he saw as a privileged caste of priests, he maintained "the priesthood of all believers...
...record fill-in on the outcome of some major shoots, 3) cover the tests from vantage points (7,900 ft. from the launching pads) that had previously been off limits to the press. In return for these and other concessions, said Yates, newsmen would have to agree to 1) withhold stories based on his briefings until after each firing, 2) avoid pinpointing firing times in advance, and 3) keep "completely quiet" about some "off-record firings [that] will not be newsworthy in the truest sense but would give aid to the enemy if covered in depth...
Paper Mate. In Columbus, Ohio, Gertrude Hill asked the Citizen and the Dispatch to withhold listing of her filing for divorce, because she was scheduled to deliver a lecture to a church group on "Family Life...
Would the President fight to get his complete program, presumably including his $73.9 billion budget, through Congress this year by quietly threatening to withhold election support from Congressmen who opposed him? "No," said Ike. "I don't deal on that basis. I do every possible thing I can in the way of consultation, communication, both in Congress and with people outside of Government, to persuade them of the soundness of [my] views ... I will continue to urge and argue far more behind the scenes than in front, but, nevertheless, I will argue . . . as long as I have strength...
...power of negative endorsement" but nobody to give "an absolutely clear-cut decision that you know will stand." Titan is still on a "one-shift basis" and has not received a dollar of speedup money. Curtiss-Wright's President Roy Hurley aimed at the Pentagon budgeteers who withhold money for a program that has been approved by the Joint Chiefs and authorized by Congress: "You should shoot them, or drown them or put 'em in jail." Summed up Donald W. Douglas Sr., president of Douglas Aircraft Co. (Thor): "What we need most is more guts and less gobbledygook...