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...with) the pink-eyed Nation, is still generally unfriendly to Franco. Its "progressive opinion" has stirred up many a furor among Catholics. A strong voice of the anti-Communist left, Commonweal is pro-union and consumer cooperatives, and anti-bigotry. It used to whiplash Detroit's ranting Father Coughlin, and blamed Boston's Catholic Irish for the long, grubby reign of Mayor James Michael Curley. When gravediggers at a New York Catholic cemetery struck last year for higher wages, and Cardinal Spellman personally led the strikebreakers, Commonweal sided with the workers. When Catholics succeeded in banning Roberto Rossellini...
...investigation" of the entire school system, hinted that the school program was "part of a campaign to 'sell' our children on the collapse of our way of life." The council's Chairman Frank Wells used the writings of rabble-rousing Allen Zoll, onetime advocate of Father Coughlin, to back up his charge that progressive education fosters juvenile delinquency. Wells's successor, Osteopath Ernest Brower, was convinced that sex education (a pre-Goslin innovation) would lead straight to free love, which would lead straight to Communism...
...Executive Board takes office. Members of the incoming board are: William M. Simmons '52, President; Rudelph Kass '52, Managing Editor; William S. Holbrook III '52, Business Manager; David L. Ratner '52, Editorial Chairman; Marlowe A. Sigal '52, Photographic Chairman; Frank B. Gilbert '52, Associate Managing Editor; Edward J. Coughlin '52, Sports Editor; and Robert L. Wiley, Jr. '52, Advertising Manager...
Tools of the Trade. In Toronto, Kenneth Coughlin, charged with "carrying an offensive weapon," was dismissed after he explained to the court that he needed his brass knuckles for self-defense in his job as a rent collector...
Other officers named to the new executive board were Edward Joseph Coughlin, Jr. '52 of Newton and Dunster House as Sports Editor; Frank Brandeis Gilbert '52 of New York City and Eliot House as Associate Managing Editor; and Robert Leroy Wiley, Jr. '52 of St. Paul, Minnesota, and Lowell House as Advertising Manager...