Word: catholicize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Student. Born in Munich in 1900, the son of a Catholic schoolteacher, he became an ensign-bearer in the Eleventh Bavarian Infantry Regiment at 17, but saw no active service at the World War front. The War over, he joined Fhrer Hitler's struggling German Labor Party at 19...
But next year, after Eugene Ormandy had left the Minneapolis Symphony to go to Philadelphia, Maestro Mitropoulos got Ormandy's job. Minneapolitans soon found that their new Greek had a mind of his own. In a small dormitory room on the University of Minnesota campus with a studio couch...
Mr. Howard noted a recent Gallup poll which announced that half the people of the U. S. approve of gambling, in church or out. He saw that, out of more than 200 Episcopal and Roman Catholic bishops, not more than a dozen or so banned Bingo as a means of...
With anger in his stout heart, Reformer Howard last February visited a Bingo hot spot, Rochester, N. Y., where he once lived after amassing a modest fortune as a picture-frame salesman. For Progress, organ of his Federation, the Little Giant wrote: "This is Rochester under the benign administration of...
Catholics gasped, then jumped on Mr. Howard. Last week, in another issue of Progress, he explained himself: he had been shocked because Rochester Catholics played Bingo the night after Pope Pius XI died. "Time and Bingo waits for no Pope at St. Margaret Mary Church. On with Bingo, while in...