Word: anti-catholicism
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I've read Mary Burchard Pryor's letter to you and before that I read the nun's canceling her subscription because of the doggerel you copied [TIME, Oct. 29; Nov. 5]. I liked Miss Pryor's letter; I did not like the nun's...
Chairman Raskob had some photostats made. He obtained affidavits from people in Mississippi, Kentucky, Kansas and Tennessee who described instances where Republican officials, State and national, had engaged in whipping up anti-Catholic animus. The most common offense seemed to be handing out The Fellowship Forum, nauseous, rabid Klanpaper (see...
Senator Moses came out, too, with some unpleasantries. He was vague about the "red hot stuff" he had sent to Zeb Vance Walser. First he said he had sent out "so much material" he really could not recall which was which. Then he said it might have been anti-Tammany...
Mr. Raskob replied by releasing the "red hot stuff." He put on display in Manhattan a collection of anti-Catholic propaganda, including a quotation from Republican Governor Flem D. Sampson of Kentucky that Smith would "destroy the churches and schools."
Extended across the advertisement was the gigantic headline: IS THIS GOOD AMERICANISM? GET THE FACTS-LEARN THE TRUTH. It was difficult to tell at first glance whether the advertisement was pro-or anti-Catholic. Caught eyes read on. The explanation: "Many sections of our country, particularly where there are few...