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...North American College in Rome, was ordained priest there 33 years ago. Returning to Philadelphia, he became an ecclesiastical handyman and good personal friend of Denis Cardinal Dougherty. Father Corrigan worked among Italians, published a newspaper called La Verita, taught Dogmatic Theology at St. Charles, was diocesan censor of books, moderator of priests in conference, presiding judge of the diocesan matrimonial court and finally chancellor of the diocese. A brilliant preacher, lie made the principal address when Désiré Cardinal Mercier of Belgium visited Philadelphia in the autumn of 1919. For 14 years Monsignor Corrigan has conducted what...
...Last week the Soviet Government not only permitted quotes but supplied Mr. Howard with a translation of what Joseph Stalin had said in Russian, this interview having been conducted through brilliant, saturnine Constantine Umansky as interpreter. For five years Comrade Umansky was the Soviet Foreign Office's Chief Censor of all news going out of Russia. He leaves Russia this week to become counselor of the Soviet Embassy in Washington...
...newsman must have the brass to ask what are generally called "embarrassing questions." This quality Mr. Howard displayed in full measure in his interview with Dictator Stalin, whom it is virtually impossible to embarrass. Consequently their conversation, even after filtering through the Chief Soviet Censor, was a merry din of brass clashing upon steel...
...Stalin. "Maybe they said something of that nature-but the Soviet people did not found the American Communist Party. The American Communist Party was created by Americans." By this weasel, Steel could be said to have won the match from Brass, but it was soon evident that, for all Censor Umansky's care, Publisher Howard had got deeply under Soviet skins...
Surprisingly last week the Ethiopian censor with His Majesty at Dessye passed a dispatch reading, "If Il Duce wished to instill fear into the hearts of these ignorant natives he has certainly succeeded...