Word: dominicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dominican priest's remark came in his introduction of Willard Edwards, Washington correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, who spoke on "The Meaning of Alger Hiss." Edwards' talk, sponsored by the Aquinas Foundation was on the eve of the Hiss speech to the Whig-Cliosophic Society on "The Meaning of Geneva...
...south ballroom of Washington's Willard Hotel one night last week, a stocky, wavy-haired Dominican priest rose from his seat at the head table. As 800 guests burst out cheering, he made his way to the speaker's stand to receive the highest honor Catholic University alumni can pay. At 69, the Very Rev. Ignatius Smith, dean of C.U.'s School of Philosophy, became the ninth recipient of the Cardinal Gibbons medal, "for distinguished and meritorious service to the United States of America, the Catholic Church or the Catholic University of America." Though better-known...
...children of an Irish grocer in Newark, N.J., Iggy went through Newark High School while working as a brewery bookkeeper and machine-shop man. Just when the desire to become a priest hit him he does not know, but "suddenly," says he, "it was there." He chose the Dominican Order and the name Ignatius, and after his novitiate year at St. Rose Priory in Springfield, Ky. he was sent by the order...
Lawyer Galindez, a sociable Basque bachelor of 40, fought Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco and paid the price of defeat in exile, first to France, then, in 1939, to the Dominican Republic. There he took legal advisory and teaching jobs with the government of Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. As he watched the strongman's methods, his fear and anger grew. By 1946 he was deep in anti-Trujillo underground activity and New York friends got him a visa to come to the U.S. By then a fascination with Trujillo's iron personality and Trujillo's absolute...
Lawyer Franklin D, Roosevelt Jr., though never chummy with the Dominican Republic's Dictator Rafael Trujillo, came right out and registered as a foreign agent for the Caribbean nation. For representing Trujillo's legal interests and performing "such other services as required" in the U.S., Roosevelt's new law firm in Washington will get a handsome retainer of $60,000 for two years. F.D.R. Jr.'s partner is Lawyer Charles Patrick Clark, now a lobbyist for Spain's Dictator Francisco Franco, but better known for socking the nose of Columnist Drew Pearson in 1952 (Clark...