Word: catholicize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"Governor Murphy is a devout Catholic, attends Mass regularly. Even his critics give him credit for broad tolerance.
In most countries extremist parties, left or right, usually show their greatest gains when times are hard. In evenminded Belgium, however, this trend is often reversed. Last week, a time of international if not national stress, the Belgian electorate voted overwhelmingly for the moderate parties in the municipal elections held...
> Students in Friends (Quaker) colleges are least conservative, Catholic students by far the most reactionary. State universities are in the middle, but they have more liberalizing influence than any other type of college.
Although 90% of its people are Catholic, the Ostmark is not today a good Catholic land. Vienna's most famed characteristic has long been "Schlamperei" (slackness), and probably no more than 40% of Austrians are practicing Catholics. In Vienna last week, good Catholics worshiped timidly under the eyes of...
At a meeting of the National Conference of Catholic Charities in Richmond, Va., James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney confessed that he had been a truant in his youth, and a persistent one: "To be a successful truant in a modern city requires considerable resourcefulness, as you people undoubtedly know."