Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many a plain citizen the speech sounded like a new and bolder Hoover. The President's campaign managers assured him that it had already made hundreds of thousands of votes for him. Even the Democrats were restrained or trivial in their criticism. James Middleton Cox, for example, conceded: "It is decidedly Hoover's best effort. It shows, marked improvement in spirit and courage. He has made the best out of a very bad case...
Most conspicuous Roman Catholic priests in the U. S. are Father Charles E. Coughlin of the Detroit diocese, whom William Henry Cardinal O'Connell of Boston flayed last spring for "demagogic talk" over the radio in behalf of cashing the Bonus; and Father James R. Cox of Pittsburgh, who invaded Washington with a jobless "army" last winter (TIME, Jan. 18) and is candidate for President of the U. S. on a "Liberty" or "Jobless" party ticket. Father Cox talks loudly of taking over all U. S. wealth, all U. S. banks, providing public works to end unemployment. "Either...
Last fortnight Father Cox visited the Vatican. Before leaving Rome, with the Vatican as his sounding board, he told the editor of Il Tevere in an interview that he would poll 17 million votes among the U. S. unemployed, not to speak of the ex-service men. Father Cox invited Il Tevere's editor to lunch with him in the White House some time after...
Paris and London newspapers reported that Pope Pius XI had received Father Cox privately. The Vatican took pains last week, in its official Osservatore Romano, to correct this impression. Father Cox, it said, was merely present with other pilgrims at a public audience. "He neither had a chance to talk with the Pope nor receive the Pope's approval. He has not spoken with any one at the Vatican regarding his candidacy, neither is any one at the Vatican interested therein...
Married. Mrs. Helen McMahon Brady, widow of James Cox Brady, financier, sportsman, philanthropist; and Charles Suydam Cutting, New York sportsman, cousin of New Mexico's Senator Bronson Cutting; in Gladstone...