Word: drunken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when San Francisco's Archbishop John Mitty and Monsignor Harold Collins accused the San Francisco News of antagonism to the Church and instituted a boycott against that paper because it had dared to print that one of Archbishop Mitty's priests had been arrested for drunken driving...
...Catholic. I think my religion the most beautiful in the world. But congratulations to the San Francisco News and to TIME for their "account" regarding the priest ar rested for drunken driving with a woman companion. Archbishop Mitty's use ot the terms "antagonistic" and "bigoted," because the News printed the story, makes me both laugh, and feel a bit nauseated...
...Rogers, 26, is a tall, bookish, satyr-faced church organist who lost his family, one by one. His old grandmother, 76, died suddenly. His mother, apparently a suicide, was found one morning with chloroform-soaked cotton over her face. Finally, one night three years ago, his father, in a drunken stupor, was burned to death when the Los Angeles house caught fire...
...Sept. 11, Scripps-Howard's San Francisco News printed an item saying that a Roman Catholic priest with a woman companion had pleaded guilty, in a Medera, Calif. court, to drunken driving. Other San Francisco papers passed up the story...
General Charles de Gaulle sent a telegram to his onetime colleague on the Committee of National Liberation, General Henri Honoré Giraud, who had been shot in the cheek outside his villa near Oran by a drunken Senegalese sentry. The shot broke several of Giraud's teeth. General de Gaulle called for a "thorough examination" of the "outrage...