Word: archbishop
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...National Association of Manufacturers, and the current fight over aid to parochial schools. The conflict is "very serious," Pearson declared. He reported that Rep. John McCormack (D-Mass.) is privately grumbling that Kennedy is "anti-Catholic." Kennedy, according to Pearson, has described the House Democratic Majority Leader as "the Archbishop of Boston...
...undergraduate scholarships and for college classrooms and dormitory construction, $2,298,000,000 more in three-year grants to states for public school construction and/or teacher salaries. Fortnight ago, the 13 members of the administrative board ruling the National Catholic Welfare Conference-composed of more than 200 cardinals, archbishops and bishops who guide church policies in the U.S.-met quietly in Washington (TiME, March 10). After the meeting, Archbishop Karl J. Alter of Cincinnati announced that the church would oppose the bill unless it was amended to include longterm, low-interest loans to the nation's private schools, more...
...Congress the tide of Catholic pressure was rising fast. Without a word to the President, influential House Majority Leader John McCormack, a Massachusetts Roman Catholic known in Congressional cloakrooms as "Archbishop," came out for parochial school loans. (Montana's Mike Mansfield, Senate Majority Leader and also a Catholic, carefully stayed neutral, told newsmen with a worried smile: "I'm just waiting for the Bells of St. Mary's to peal.") The 99 Catholic Congressmen (twelve in the Senate, 87 in the House), as well as Protestants from heavily Catholic districts, eyed a growing pile of mail...
...federal assistance to private education as the first evil step toward federal control. New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman claimed in 1949 that "we do not ask nor can we expect public funds to pay for the construction of parochial school buildings." Even in 1955, Boston's Archbishop (now Cardinal) Richard Gushing claimed: "We are not looking for any federal or Government aid to build our schools...
Illuminated Law. The play is Curtmantle, about Henry II and Archbishop Thomas Becket. a theme previously treated by T.S. Eliot and Jean Anouilh. With Anouilh's Becket still running in New York and soon to open in London, Fry tactfully avoided competition, opened his play in an odd setting: the new civic theater at Tilburg, in The Netherlands, where he hoped for a quiet tryout. The fact that the play was given in Dutch would help him, thought Fry. to concentrate less on language than on structure, always his weakness. Hardly a sneak preview, Curtmantle* opened to an audience...