Word: anti-catholicism
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Democratic National Chairman Henry M. ("Scoop") Jackson hinted darkly that Republican moneybags were bankrolling the anti-Catholic campaign, and challenged the press to find out "who prepared the statement issued by Dr. Peale's group." He suggested that the issue was turning the whole campaign in Kennedy's...
Nuances & Traps. Jack Kennedy's headquarters rolled out tens of thousands of copies of Kennedy's major statements on the religious issue, emphasizing that "the separation of church and state is fundamental to our American concept and heritage and should remain so." While whistle-stopping through California, Kennedy...
Heady Prediction. Battered on Capitol Hill, Kennedy had other worries besides. Midwestern polls suggested that the force of the farm revolt against the G.O.P. has been overestimated. Anti-Catholic prejudice was looming bigger in the South and Midwest than Kennedy had expected. In New York, a nonprofit organization called the...
¶Reader Mewhinney is not the first to confuse Nell with Louise, who served as the King's Catholic mistress. When an anti-Catholic mob in Oxford mistook Nell for her unpopular rival, the plain-speaking actress stuck her head out the carriage window and said, "Pray, good people...
Passed from hand to hand under tables, slipped under doors, sent anonymously through the mails, an old and notorious piece of anti-Catholic propaganda turned up last week in scattered cities and towns, mostly in the South. Part of a spreading anti-Catholic campaign against Presidential Candidate John F. Kennedy...