Word: civilities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trial, a "protest" against violence at Paul Robeson's August Peekskill concert, includes speeches by Miss Ray Lev, pianist who played at the original concert: William Patterson, executive secretary of the Civil Rights Congress which sponsored the concert; and Father Clarence Duffy, American Catholic priest from the Diocese of Kilmore, Eire...
Responsibility. Said the Pope: "In particular, the Catholic judge cannot pronounce, unless for motives of great import, a decision of civil divorce (where it does exist) in a marriage valid before God and the Church.* He cannot forget that such a decision practically touches not only on civil effects, but rather in reality leads to the erroneous consideration that the ties are broken and new ties are valid and binding . . ." In this respect, he added, "your duty is noticeably lighter in Italy, where divorce (the cause of so many interior conflicts for the judge who must enforce the law) does...
...fast. The National Catholic Welfare Conference in Washington, D.C. explained that the Pope's speech was not "a newly arrived at position . . . The common view of theologians holds that the act of the judge in pronouncing a divorce is merely an official declaration that the state regards the civil effects of the marriage as no longer existing. Since this declaration is in itself a morally indifferent action, it can be permitted, at least in certain circumstances...
Lanky, leather-faced Aubrey Williams turned it around. He went whole hog for Harry Truman's Fair Deal, especially for his civil-rights program, hopes to make the Farmer a powerful political organ. Said he: "The Farmer is for any New Deal plan you can name." By last week Publisher Williams, 59, had about tripled Southern Farmer's circulation to 1,052,821, only a furrow's width behind the South's biggest farm publications, the Southern Agriculturist (circ. 1,103,034) and the Progressive Farmer (circ. 1,080,575),-but fields ap&rt in journalistic...
Moses, who was returning from the Yale game, has owned a war surplus North American AT-6 trainer for a year and a half. He took off at Bridgeport at 4:45 p.m. yesterday and was due at Logan Airport at 5:40 p.m. Civil Aeronautics Administration officials reported...