Word: amenities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senator's Amen. "The Administration and its Republican supporters argue that we must intervene alone in Greece because the United Nations is too weak to act. I have not forgotten the appeasement of Hitler. I remember that every betrayal of world solidarity against Hitler by Daladier and Chamberlain was made in the name of the weakness of the League of Nations...
...work in the future will be more and more educational and less and less curative. . . . He will spend his time keeping the fit fit rather than trying to make the unfit fit." Famed Dr. Henry E. Sigerist of Johns Hopkins (TIME, March 10) added a hearty (but possibly overhopeful) Amen: "The doctor is now becoming the adviser to the statesman...
...economy by reducing the expenses for the armed forces would make me extremely unhappy, for the economy might prove a costly one. It was tragic enough that the boys whose fathers were World War I veterans did have to fight another horrible war. Let not history repeat itself! Amen...
...Lord, please don't let any American newspaper people ever forget the statement of Wilbur F. Storey, setting forth the aims of the old Chicago Times in 1861: 'It is a newspaper's duty to print the news, and raise hell.' Amen...
...workers from The Optimist's Good Morning, a devotional hand-me-down from the late John D. Rockefeller. One of her favorite passages begins: "With this new day, O God, let some new strength be mine." The staff of the National Council of Negro Women says a fervent amen. Though she was 71 last week, Mary Bethune still runs them ragged...