Word: archbishops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With great though respectful excitement British editors and even the House of Commons discussed last week this question: Can Pope Pius XI so contrive that John Pierpont Morgan will be unable to take the Archbishop of Canterbury on a "sunshine cruise" to the Holy Land in his yacht Corsair...
...ecclesiastical authorities" quoted were undoubtedly Roman Catholics. At Lambeth Palace, residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Anglican ecclesiastics contented themselves with stating that the Primate of All England has been suffering for months with neuralgia. The fact that Dr. Lang's great & good friend Banker Morgan has invited him to bask upon the Corsair and cruise to Palestine they called "most opportune from the health point of view...
...Archbishop of Canterbury, and to him alone, H. R. H. expounded his private reasons, his theory of why royal baccarat is not gambling...
Item: In a public letter issued from the Archbishop's Palace the Primate of All England accepted in substance H. R. H.'s definition: that playing for money is not "gambling" unless one of the players is making bets larger than he can comfortably lose. Any stricter view the Primate called "holding absurd views as to minute acts...
Guileless priests bought generously. They also introduced the crooks to their parishioners. Where zeal did not rise to the buying point, the rogues made names make sales. They mentioned as investors or authorizers Cardinals Hayes, O'Connell and Mundelein; Archbishop Curley of Baltimore, Bishop Shahan of Washington; Alfred Emanuel Smith and John Jacob Raskob; Michael J. Meehan, stockbroker, and James A. Flaherty, supreme councillor of the Knights of Columbus. One of the rogues, Jerome D. Kline, played with his own name. To solicit German Catholics he was Jerome D. Kline. To Irish Catholics he became "J. D. Kane...