Word: curleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whether the Baltimore Sun actually apologized to the Catholic Church last week for comparing Adolf Hitler to Ignatius Loyola, was a matter of opinion. Because the Baltimore Catholic Review assumed that it had, the six-week war between Archbishop Michael Joseph Curley and Sun Publisher Paul Patterson appeared to be at an end (TIME, July...
Michael Joseph Curley strolled happily along the banks of the River Shannon last week. He gazed thoughtfully at the Irish farmhouse in Golden Isle, just outside Athlone, where he and his eight brothers & sisters were reared. He sat with closed eyes in a pew of little St. Mary's Church where, nearly half a century ago, he and a reedy-voiced youngster named John McCormack were altar boys together. He wandered in the ruins of the Clonmacnoise Abbey, just as he had wandered as a moppet, when the spell of the place impelled him to study for the priesthood...
...printed Father Wiesel's letter without comment. Also it printed letters from Father O'Malley, S. J., dean of Loyola, and Father Theodore Daigler, S. J., president of Woodstock College. No other clergyman filed complaint. The weekly Baltimore Catholic Review printed a moderate objection. After four days quiet, Archbishop Curley returned from a trip out of town, heard what had gone on, reached for his telephone. An underling on the Sun's desk took the call. To all the Archbishop had to say, that unhappy deskman could only gulp and stammer. Later in the day Editor John W. Owens visited...
...Because the Baltimore Sun, in its foreign correspondence, found in Jesuit Loyola and Adolf Hitler "the same readiness and determination to exercise their power with ruthlessness and brutality in order to carry out" their missions, Baltimore's Archbishop Michael Joseph Curley last week flayed the Sun, commanded his flock to take "action...
...California and most other States; Jim Browning, recognized in New York, where wrestling draws biggest crowds. Because it seemed likely that neither Londos nor Browning would willingly sacrifice a title which has been worth $75,000 a year to each, the New York State Athletic Commission authorized Promoter Jack Curley-who had arranged the match because wrestling gate receipts have lately declined-to disregard the ruling which says that in New York wrestling bouts are "exhibitions" not "contests." The crowd (35,000) was the biggest at a wrestling match since the one which saw Frank Gotch defeat George Hacken-schmidt...