Word: emanuele
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even a political machine can get gummed up with too much politics." World-Telegram Colyumist Heywood Broun began organizing a mass meeting "in answer to the average citizen's question: 'What can I do?'" The Daily News thought that the municipality's only salvation lay in draft- ing Alfred Emanuel Smith for Mayor...
Press agents named the grand scheme Radio City. Then came the question of a figurehead to attract public attention, as Alfred Emanuel Smith was figureheading the Empire State Building. It was announced last week that Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel would be inaugurated "Mayor" of Radio City on April...
...tour took place. From the Texas legislature had come a unanimous invitation to address the Texas Senate! True, in Texas as in Louisiana, Roman Catholics form the largest single denomination.* Memories of the early Mission Fathers underlie the Baptist and Methodist culture. But Texas voted against Alfred Emanuel Smith in 1928. And never before in history has a Prince of Rome been asked to address a State legislative body in the South. The affecting nature of these facts was clearly reflected upon Cardinal Hayes's face when Lieut.-Governor Edward Witt (a Baptist) conducted the State's guest...
Guileless priests bought generously. They also introduced the crooks to their parishioners. Where zeal did not rise to the buying point, the rogues made names make sales. They mentioned as investors or authorizers Cardinals Hayes, O'Connell and Mundelein; Archbishop Curley of Baltimore, Bishop Shahan of Washington; Alfred Emanuel Smith and John Jacob Raskob; Michael J. Meehan, stockbroker, and James A. Flaherty, supreme councillor of the Knights of Columbus. One of the rogues, Jerome D. Kline, played with his own name. To solicit German Catholics he was Jerome D. Kline. To Irish Catholics he became "J. D. Kane...
...flamboyant, drum-beating promoter who caused the disastrous aviation "boom" of three years ago, stands Harold F. Pitcairn, 34. Lean, conservative, outwardly humorless, he is third son of the late John Pitcairn, founder of Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. The elder Pitcairn, a follower of the Swedish philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg, gave land near the family home at Bryn Athyn, Pa. for the beautiful Swedenborgian Cathedral (New Jerusalem Church) which now stands there. All of the family maintain a lively interest in the church, and Harold received part of his schooling in its academy. Like de la Cierva, Harold Pitcairn learned...