Word: belford
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Coughlin to justify himself by papal quotation, thought many a devout Catholic last week, but the fact remained that popes clothe their crusades for social justice in solemn, stately Latin, not in hoarse words through a microphone. Most outraged of the Catholic clergy was plump, garrulous Monsignor John L. Belford of Brooklyn who stormed at Father Coughlin: "The man is an infernal nuisance. He has gone mad with popularity. . . . Members of his Church despise him. . . . His Bishop is even worse than he is. The Bishop has it in his power to stop him and he has not done so, although...
Later in the week, with the storm still beating around his ears. Monsignor Belford had a change of heart, telegraphed Father Coughlin: "Regret uncharitable interview. Will broadcast apology today. Extremely sorry." Monsignor Belford on the radio: "I desire to broadcast a very humble and sincere apology to all whom I offended. ... It was uncharitable and I deeply regret it. I am not explaining, extenuating or excusing. . . . No Christian, and certainly no clergyman, should express such uncharitable views...
...Sunday broadcast Father Coughlin stuck by his Smith story, denounced the "Morgan interests," excoriated the "Tory Press," declared the U. S. must choose between "Roosevelt or Ruin." Speaking later of Monsignor Belford's apology he boasted: "John Raskob will be next and Al Smith after...
...Snorkey had lost some $50,000 in two years to him. Bookie Sam Gitelson thought his profits were $25,000. Bookie George Lederman took another $25,000. Bookie Milton Held got $35,000. A sharp-eyed hunchback named Oscar Gutter swore he had won $40,000 from Capone; Harry Belford, better known as "Hickory Slim, the Dice Guy," $25,000. Other bookmakers got smaller amounts. Altogether Snorkey's fondness for playing the Caponies seemed to have cost him some $200.000. Snorkey smirked, did not seem ashamed. One Bud Gentry breezed up on the stand, recalled that Prizefighters Sharkey & Stribling...
...French maids and telephones, plagued by a Coca-Cola-guzzling husband, turns in a businesslike, applausible performance. Lost Sheep. If a Methodist minister should unwittingly rent a house which had but recently been evacuated by a procuress and six employes, the situation might contain much potential coarse merriment. Playwright Belford Forrest, having conceived of such a plan, made sure that his preacher was sufficiently naive to suspect nothing for at least three acts of a play which he called Lost Sheep. Rev. William Wampus, awaiting the completion of a new parish house, moves with his wife (Marie Cecilia ["Cissie"] Loftus...