Word: jesuitism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Manager Kraska obtained the U. S. rights to Monastery, he invited his good friend Father Ahern to help him cut, revise and edit it, as well as deliver a dubbed-in commentary. For the jovial, baldish Jesuit, this was a congenial assignment. Father "Mike" Ahern, 60, is an accomplished Catholic publicist. Head of the departments of chemistry and geology at Weston College, New England Jesuit training college, he is also a teacher of philosophy, science and theology at Boston College, and, since 1929, speaker on Boston station WNAC's "Catholic Truth Period...
...that in July Yugoslavia refused to renew Reuters' Harrison's residential permit after he had lived in Yugoslavia 14 years. Powerful because his Slovene Clerical Party was one of the three strong units welded into the present Government Party, Minister of Home Affairs Dr. Anton Koroshets, a Jesuit priest, resented Mr. Harrison's July accounts which described the Government's vain attempt to force the unpopular Concordat with the Vatican. Subsequently Premier Milan Stoyadinovitch permitted Mr. Harrison to remain in the country. Last week with Premier Stoyadinovitch in Rome, Acting Premier Koroshets was able to make...
Heine's placid father wanted him to be a comfortable merchant; his mother had more ambitious, vaguely social plans. As a result, the boy shuttlecocked from a Jewish cheder (rabbinical school) to a more aristocratic Jesuit Gymnasium, then back to a matter-of-fact business college, and finally to the University of Göttingen, where a wealthy uncle sent him to study law. He got his degree but never practiced. Instead, he hurried to Berlin, published there in 1822 a juvenile volume of poems, the Junge Leiden (Young Sorrows). "I got forty free copies." he wrote later...
Last November an admission that the Madrid Government dared not move to the then anarchist-ridden Catalan Barcelona, or words of praise for the founder of the powerful, much-feared Jesuit order, would have been tantamount to treason...
...Since he began his lecture tours, Dr. de Quevedo has appeared in U. S. cities under the auspices not only of local Guilds but of such approved Catholic organizations as the Knights of Columbus and the Holy Name Society. His Manhattan debut last week was endorsed by Fordham University (Jesuit...