Word: electioneerings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In 1932, just before the Presidential election, Joe Strecker passed a Negro church in Hot Springs, saw a white woman addressing a black & white audience of about 50. Communism was her theme. Joe remembers she told how bread and oranges were being cast into the sea by capitalists to hike...
One dean, however, was not in Rome last week. He was William Henry Cardinal O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston. Twice Cardinal O'Connell has missed a papal election by not getting to Rome soon enough. The second time, in 1922, he missed it by no more than an...
Conservative observers, however, looked for the election of an Italian archbishop, not too old, such as Milan's Cardinal Schuster, Venice's Patriarch-Cardinal Piazza, Turin's Cardinal Fossati-or even Cardinal Camerlengo Pacelli, despite the fact that Secretaries of State have in recent years seldom been...
At one point Witness Ecker remarked that "the agent in his canvassing-he is resourceful. . . ." One aspect of Metropolitan agents' resourcefulness was considered next day. The Metropolitan is a mutual company, its policyholders being its shareholders and theoretically therefore electors of the management. Bill Douglas set out to show...
Further treading on the industry's toes, Dancer Douglas politely explained that the Met was "not singled out as a culprit," that other mutual companies employ the same "election machinery." The swing session was then adjourned until this week, and Bill Douglas journeyed to Manhattan to speak before the...