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Religion: Not Healthful

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TIME

The New Jersey Council of Christian Churches last week asked President Truman to change the name of his private plane. Said the Council: the “Sacred Cow” is “offensive to the Christian conscience of our land . . . has a pagan association which is not healthful to the minds of our young people.”

Sacred Cow: journalists’ and politicos’ slang for an untouchable subject.

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