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...Nationalist Party. In 1933, when Nationalist Prime Minister Barry Hertzog made a pact with the South African Party's pliable Jan Christian Smuts-whom Verwoerd considered a tool of the British-he was so disgusted that he joined Afrikanerdom's ultranationalist secret society, the Broederbond (brotherhood). With a young Transvaal lawyer named Johannes Strijdom, he founded Die Transvaler, an Afrikaans-language newspaper, to put across their message. Verwoerd resigned from Stellenbosch to become the editor...
...example, the Knights and the Shriners co-sponsored a charity bazaar. In Tacoma, Wash., Columbians and Shriners gathered for what one ecumenical enthusiast called "a real bash." And in Hartford, Conn., the Knights have joined with the Masons and B'nai B'rith to form a brotherhood committee rep resenting a combined membership of 100,000. Says Supreme Knight John W. McDevitt, national head of the Catholic organization: "It's high time for the dissipation of any recriminations, disaffections or petty jealousies that may have formed a barrier be tween the Knights of Columbus and the Masonic...
...noted with interest that Cardinal Gushing gave permission for a parish Holy Name Society to have a non-Catholic speaker on religious matters. Now no permission at all is needed for Boston Catholic groups to invite Protestant or Jewish speakers, and the cardinal himself recently addressed the Masons' Brotherhood Lodge (subject: ecumenism). In St. Louis, some Holy Name Societies sponsor monthly meetings of Catholics and Protestants to discuss theology, with the groups alternating in choosing the topics. Catholic parent-teacher groups in San Francisco have switched discussions from such themes as "Patron Saint of the Month" to "Communication with...
...proclaims a song called Hoffa's Blues, on sale on records last week in the lobby of the Miami Beach Auditorium. Inside, the 1,845 delegates to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters convention indeed rolled in for President James Hoffa just about all that he could wish-with the possible exception of his tormentors' heads...
...Francisco's Dow Wilson saw it, leaders of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers were more interested in lucre than lacquer. As secretary of San Francisco Local 4, the brotherhood's largest, Wilson waged a tireless battle against union officials' chicanery, citing as one instance a union-employer welfare fund in Sacramento that he claimed had been mishandled. Wilson was shot to death for his pains April 5. This month Lloyd Green, another crusading official of the same union, met the same fate. After the arrest (TIME, May 20) of five murder suspects-two of whom...