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...school also had their G. I. approval taken away suddenly so that veterans could no longer receive government aid if they studied there. The boys who belonged to the Center and worked on the outside for money were all fired from their jobs. According to Hall and Feeney's supporters, the New York Times and Herald-Tribune were asked by Cardinal Spellman not to publish reviews of Feeney's latest book. Cushing has similarly silenced the Boston press, Feeney claims...
Actually, Feeney receives contributions, mostly from local areas, from priests, businessmen, and devotees, who, according to Feeney, "like what I'm saying, but don't dare say it themselves...
...Finally, Feeney's influence through his books is large. The Ravenagate Press, set up to publish his works exclusively, said that his best known work. "The Loyolas and the Cabots," sold 3,500 copies in the first printing, 12,000 more in the second, and the plates are being held for a third...
However ridiculous it may seem to Harvard readers, there is danger in what Feeney preaches. The movement of which he is a symbol is large and growing. Richard Hamel, head of the American Fascist Union, has openly supported his views. His followers now wear special black suits and dresses to mark them off as a beet apart...
...Church's "silencing" of 30 months ago has not stopped Feeney's sermons. Archbishop Cushing has received hundreds of complaints about Feeney, and as many demands that he be excommunicated. Cushing says merely that Feeney is one of the great minds of the modern church, even though he went wrong, and should be prayed for. He will say no more about what Monsignor Hickey calls "nobody's business...