Word: canonical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Calling itself "The World's Greatest Newspaper.' the Tribune has largely rejected that journalistic canon which pre scribes balanced objectivity in news presentation, with opinion confined to editorial columns. A sample "news'' lead on its front page last week: "Gov. Alf M. Landon tonight brought his great crusade for the preservation of the American form of government into Los Angeles. ..." A prime Tribune headline, over a piece exposing vice in Superior and Hurley, Wis. last fortnight...
Died. Rev. William Hartley Carnegie, 76, rector of London's swank St. Margaret's Church, since 1913 Canon of Westminster; in London. In 1916 he married the widow of Statesman Joseph Chamberlain, thus became the stepfather of Statesmen Neville and Sir Austen Chamberlain...
From England will come the Reverend Canon James S. Bezzant of Liverpool Cathedral, who will be William Belden Noble Lecture at the Harvard Divinity School...
...plump, matronly Mrs. Florence Thompson. When her husband died four months ago. Governor Albert Benjamin ("Happy") Chandler passed his job on to her. It thus became her duty to spring the trap under Bethea. A devout Roman Catholic, Sheriff Thompson consulted her priest, learned from him that nothing in canon law prohibited her from sending the blackamoor to his legal death. Protestant churchmen concurred. Nevertheless, soft-hearted Sheriff Thompson sighed: "I suppose I will spend the rest of my life forgetting-or trying to forget." Would she lose her nerve at the last minute was the big question last week...
...Gallagher, in Vatican City: "Rome holds me responsible for Father Coughlin's activities. I explained to Monsignor Pizzardo [political adviser to the Pope and Secretary of the Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs] and we agreed, that the misunderstanding arises from the fact that many are not acquainted with canon law. Actually, Monsignor Pizzardo thinks the uproar regarding Father Coughlin represents a good joke, sponsored solely for political purposes...