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...Cardinal Hayes spends his summers in a rustic snuggery in the Catskills maintained by Dominican nuns. Once, roaming alone through nearby woods, he encountered a band of hooded Ku-Kluxers. The Cardinal muttered a prayer to his namesake St. Patrick. When a Ku-Kluxer lifted his hood it was to say that they were lost, and would he please tell them the way out of the woods. Out of this incident the amiable Cardinal made a little homily to the effect that just so does the True Church lead unbelievers from the woods. New York Catholics call their archbishop...
...Iron Co. Bluff, hearty, he scorned any show of wealth, frequently wore khaki trousers, woolen shirts. In life he made known his views on education and religion to only a few intimates. Born of an Episcopal family, of British ancestry, he was never a church member, never a Ku Kluxer. He believed that religion is a personal matter, that church dogma should not be taught as fact. His reason for placing his chain-schools in the country, for restricting enrolment to native or British-blooded whites, was that isolation and a common background would give his youths a better chance...
Chief political figure on the anti-export side stood former Governor Ralph Owen Brewster (1925-29). No good friends are ex-Governors Brewster and Baxter. More than once has Baxter accused Brewster of being a Ku Kluxer. More than once has Brewster implied that Baxter is dull if not dreadful. Each hopes to succeed Maine's Senator Arthur Robinson Gould in next year's election. These two sunk their teeth into the power export bill and pulled in opposite directions. Last week Maine defeated power export by a majority of some 10,000 votes in 125,000 cast...
Governor Smith, in answer to a published letter from Mr. Hearst from San Simeon, Calif.: "Mr. Hearst's entire statement is a lie and I will prove it. He says that '. attacked the Mayor as a Ku Kluxer. That is a wicked, premeditated...