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With this in mind, the first Paulists used the word "promises" instead of "vows" (of poverty and obedience). In fact, it amounted to the same thing, but the Paulists reasoned that a country still unused to the Catholic priesthood and devoted to individual liberty might take more kindly to a man who had made a promise than to one who had bound himself by a vow. The Paulists also went in heavily for American go-getting methods. In 1865 they established the first Catholic monthly in the U.S., the Catholic World (present circ. 25,000). They set up their...
Married. Kwame Nkrumah, 48, U.S.-educated Prime Minister of Ghana, perennial bachelor ("Every woman in the Gold Coast is my bride") who kept his vow to remain unmarried until his country achieved independence: and Fathia Halim Ritzk, about 26, a Cairo university graduate; in Accra, Ghana...
...name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost Amen. I promise and vow to Almighty God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, before the whole company of heaven, and be-you, my Fathers, that I will live in celibacy, poverty, and obedience, as one of the Mission Priests of St. John the Evangelist unto my life's end. So help...
Ever since he first wooed the future Mrs. Graham with a mid-Depression vow ("Stick with me and we'll be on Easy Street"), Wichita's lively William L. Graham has been making the promise come true. He began with a $200 bank loan in 1936, and at 46 he is worth an estimated $20 million in Kansas oil and real estate. Along the way his talents for enterprise and friendship proved so overpowering that he once sold the late Dale Carnegie a house in Wichita an hour after they met. ("If I couldn't be myself...
...Oldfashioned nationalization," as Gaitskell called it, is no longer Labor doctrine (even doctrinaire Socialists found the experience disillusioning). The report cheered the past nationalization of rails, coal and electric power, and renewed its vow again to nationalize the steel and trucking industries, which the Tories restored to private ownership in 1953. But the policy that Gaitskell says must "supersede" the old way is a vague threat to authorize the state "to extend public ownership in any industry or part of industry which . . . is found to be seriously failing the nation." Presumably even this was a sop to the Bevanites...