Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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¶ Twenty-two Chicago ministers organized an "eleventh hour, prayer-for-peace vigil," managed to draw only a few dozen people into the chapel where it was held. But after Disc Jockey Martin Block put a rabbi, a priest and a Protestant minister on his program for 15 minutes of...
¶ Protestant Fundamentalist Carl Mclntire's International Council of Churches (TIME, May 16, 1949) was in agreement. Use of the bomb "to defend human freedom, if necessary" would offend no moral principles, it declared.
¶ In western New York State, 78 clergymen of a dozen Protestant denominations issued a plea against use of the bomb "lest we lose all claim to God's mercy by permitting the destruction of the innocent as well as the guilty."
Roosevelt in Retrospect was a fast, typical John Gunther look at F.D.R.; Louis Fischer looked longer at Gandhi but had more trouble trying to tell what he thought he saw, in his slogging, monotonous Life of Mahatma Gandhi. One of the year's best biographies was Amy Kelly'...
Until a couple of months ago, tall, sandy-mustached Willard A. Pleuthner was only a vice president of a big Manhattan advertising agency (Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn Inc.). Last week dazed Adman Pleuthner was trying to adjust himself to the fact that he had suddenly become an important layman-consultant...