Word: flanagan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John K. Cartwright, a Catholic priest, contended that Esquire has a tendency to encourage low ideas of women. When Attorney Bromley brought out the fact that the Catholic Digest has carried reprints from Esquire and that Father Flanagan, of Boys' Town fame, has contributed articles to Esquire, Witness Cartwright countered: "Bad judgment...
...Excellent": Boys Town's famed Father Edward J. Flanagan; in a hospital in Rochester, Minn., after an operation on his spine...
Died. The Rev. Michael ("The Big Fellow") O'Flanagan, 65, towering one-time leader of the Sinn Feiners; in Dublin. A teacher, historian, lecturer, he was acting Sinn Fein leader during Eamon de Valera's imprisonment in "The Trouble" of 1916-21. Diehard Anglophobe and fiery money-raiser in the U.S., O'Flanagan attacked the Irish bishops for allegedly using their offices to thwart full freedom, was thrice suspended from the priesthood...
Final say went to Edward J. Flanagan-Father Flanagan of Boys Town-who spoke at the conference's closing sessions on religious radio programs. Said he: "...We must not permit ourselves to be smeared with the same moral filth we are criticizing in our enemies." Who won the argument only coming broadcasts can tell...
Father Edward Joseph Flanagan, famed man-maker of Boys Town, Neb., went to Whittier, Calif, last week to make a little speech to the 232 tough, erring or merely mischievous inmates of California's reform school. The occasion was the inauguration of a new administrator of the school, T. A. Duffy, former Los Angeles schoolteacher. Good Father Flanagan pleaded with the boys to cooperate with the new administration "so you soon can take your normal place in society with other American boys." Five minutes later, 60 of Whittier's youngsters escaped...