Word: catholicize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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If any outsider could claim credit for causing Catholic Postmaster General Farley suddenly to take notice of what had been mushrooming under his nose since last summer, it was Protestant Episcopal Bishop William T. Manning of Manhattan. One Sunday last month prim little Bishop Manning left his cathedral on Morningside...
The act ranked high among samples of the ingratitude of republics. It had been Zamora in 1931 who demanded King Alfonso XIII's abdication and proclaimed the Republic. Since then, during Spain's wild swings from Left to Right to Left in last February's general elections...
In the debate on this high-handed motion, the Left, led by egg-headed Socialist Indalecio Prieto, solidly demanded the President's resignation, insisting that the dissolution that had led to its accession to power had been "unnecessary." Mournfully replied the old monarchist, Count de Romanones, "To dismiss even...
Plutarco Elías Calles roared into Mexican politics in 1920 as one of the "Sonora triumvirate" of Obregón, de la Huerta & Calles which overthrew and assassinated President Carranza. Calles, a superb executive during his four years (1924-28) as President, built up a potent political machine. After...
The biologist stood aghast. In particular he fixed his stare upon a Roman Catholic priest who was handling the little coppers as merrily and as diligently as the best of them. The biologist began to suspect a Moonface Munn and wondered if that collar was really continuous or merely put...