Word: archness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...words & music by Hans Muller & Ralph Benatsky; Rowland Stebbins, Warner Bros., Rockefellers, producers) is very large, very colorful, very oldfashioned. A pre-War production afflicted with post-War megalomania, White Horse Inn will doubtless spread its abundant, handsome Tirolese sets out into the audience and up beyond the proscenium arch of John D. Rockefeller's Center Theatre in Radio City for as long a stay as The Great Waltz...
These New York Herald Tribune headlines last week delighted those readers of that arch-Republican sheet who hope to see Franklin Roosevelt defeated in November. Republicans, Democrats and non-partisans were equally curious about the reasoning which led to the headlines' conclusion. One Rogers C. Dunn, the Herald Tribune story went on to relate, having investigated the politics of every newspaper in the land (except those in six States which he conceded to the Democrats), had found that in 33 States representing 377 electoral votes (266 needed to win), the bulk of newspaper circulation belongs to Republican sheets...
...LaGuardia and Bishop Francis J. McConnell of New York City. Among them too was Alpha R. Whiton, Democratic chairman of Putnam County who by personal request is making an attempt to rid the Squire of Hyde Park of an old grievance-the indignity of being a constituent of an arch-Republican, Representative Hamilton Fish...
...Catholics of the diocese of Tucson. These, together with San Diego (now a separate diocese to which a bishop has not yet been named), he placed under the supervision of brawny, 61-year-old John Joseph Cantwell, for 18 years Bishop of Los Angeles and San Diego and now Arch bishop of Los Angeles...
Vastly different from these labors have been those of Los Angeles' new Arch bishop. Last week's promotion signalized the phenomenal increase of Catholic population in the Los Angeles area since Churchman Cantwell was installed as Bishop in 1917. It also rewarded him for distinguished moral service to his Church. Having his diocesan offices in Los Angeles' busy Petroleum Securities Building where he rubbed elbows with bankers, brokers and cinemagnates, Archbishop Cantwell used to try to persuade the latter to keep salaciousness out of their films, finally decided that the only way to move them...