Word: groups
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With relief, outspoken Arthur Healey resigned his hot spot on the Dies committee, shifted to the Smith group. Prematurely grey Mr. Healey, long a stentorian New Dealer, had been working under wraps on the Dies group, with his strongly Catholic constituency clamoring for more vigorous Red-baiting. California's young Jerry Voorhis will step into Healey's lukewarm shoes as the New Deal's flatfoot assigned to watch Mr. Dies. New Dealers begged Speaker Bankhead to add Illinois' T. V. Smith to the committee as a further balance...
Fortnight ago, on Emancipation Day, a large group of Negro celebrities gathered at this forlorn spot, listened to a flowery oration by Publisher Cooke, then paraded past the grave, dropping gladioli and singing "Carry me back. . . ." Among the singers: famed Negro Blues Composer William Christopher Handy, Composer J. Rosamond (brother of James Weldon) Johnson. Meanwhile spontaneous contributions for a James Bland Memorial began to pile up in Publisher Cooke's Philadelphia office. It looked as if James Bland's grave might soon have something better on it than poison...
...find of oblong, pre-Aleut skulls, which he sent home to the Smithsonian Institution. Last June he decided to dig for longheads on the Asiatic mainland, went to Irkutsk, Siberia, 1,200 miles from the coast. In a nearby burial ground, girdled by stony mountains, Soviet scientists unearthed a group of long-headed skulls, completely different from the round skulls of present-day Siberian natives. The skulls not only matched those found on the Aleutian Islands but they were dead ringers for Algonquin Indians. Not even expert anthropologists, said Dr. Hrdlicka, could tell them apart...
...Duce's Councilor of State, have long held that Catholic Action, which is the only Italian Papular organization not run by the State, is potentially a political, hence an opposition, party. Last week, a year almost to the day after the Pope's warning, Farinacci's group struck and struck hard. To save its life, Catholic Action perforce accepted the Fascist terms: terms which left it a purely religious organization...
...forbidden by law to wear clerical garb outside their houses and their churches, and the cassock has not been seen in the streets of most Mexican states for many years. An eye opener for U. S. adepts of "selective indignation"* was a photograph circulated last week. It showed a group of Mexican and U. S. prelates, gathered in the patio of the home of Mexico's Archbishop Luis M. Martinez. He and the Archbishop of Morelia wore their soutanes because, presumably, they were staying indoors. The others wore sack suits and neckties...