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Word: hoovercrat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...parish priest. But Monsignor Sheen is much more than a pulpiteer: he is one of the Church's ablest converters. Much in demand for instructing converts, he spends ten hours a week at this quiet, heart-&-soul job. Some of his more notable converts: the late Hoovercrat Horace A. Mann and his wife, the late Heywood Broun, whom Monsignor Sheen baptized, gave last rites to and buried (TIME, Jan. 1). Monsignor Sheen is now preparing Henry Ford's grandson Henry II for reception into the Church and marriage with a Catholic, Ann McDonnell. But on none...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Monsignor's Tenth | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

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