Word: stewardship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their fellow Americans came the Prime Minister of Italy, the Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia, the Hungarian Minister to Paris, the head of France's second largest political party, the U.S. Secretary of the Navy. At the Cleveland Institute James F. Byrnes delivered an account of his successful stewardship as Secretary of State in a critical year of U.'S. history. From the same platform Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg redefined U.S. foreign policy for the first time since becoming head of the U.S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee...
Last week's Republican landslide, said he, should give business "a favorable Government climate to conduct its stewardship." But there was danger in it, too-the danger that "complacency may lead us in business to slide back, and to revert to past attitudes of indifference and unconcern for the people." Warned Chuck Luckman: "That attitude was repudiated once before. ... It can be repudiated again...
...Protestantism is gaining members. It is collecting more money from them, too, and the average contribution for the collection plate is up. Last fortnight Everyone, Presbyterian quarterly, published the United Stewardship Council statistics for 1945.† Reports from 18 top Protestant denominations showed a net membership gain over 1944: 563,866 (2.2%); increase in gifts: $62,997,968 (14.9%); increase in per capita contributions...
Religion v. Materialism. Solon Barnes is a Quaker, brought up in unworldliness. He marries (for love) into a richer family of Friends and becomes a Philadelphia banker. For many years he floats along on uneasy rationalizations about the sacred stewardship of wealth (which he honestly tries to live up to). When his associates mire themselves and their bank deeper & deeper in crooked, within-the-law self-interest, he can stay silent no longer. In part the novel is a study of the losing struggle between the moribund U.S. religious sense and proliferating U.S. materialism...
...Douglas MacArthur's first detailed account of his stewardship in Japan and Korea ran to some 100,000 words and had the usual MacArthur attributes. It read well; detailed facts punctuated its sweeping perspective. And it boiled down to one basic fact: General MacArthur had done a bang-up job of occupying Japan...