Word: layings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Berlin diocese, declaring that not more than 58 of Germany's 25,635 priests could be suspected of immorality though the Reich had imprisoned for examination 915 (including lay brothers), ordered a pamphlet to be read from pulpits on the "Sunday of Youth." This was the Church's reply to a tirade three weeks ago by Propaganda Minister Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels who, as a onetime star pupil of Jesuit priests, perhaps felt specially qualified to speak about the "general shocking decadence of morals'' among the German priesthood...
...that his fellow bishops soon made him a member of the administrative board, presently board chairman, of the National Catholic Welfare Conference. That body launches and maintains such "Catholic Action" projects as the Legion of Decency and is the sounding-board of the U. S. hierarchy, lately stipulating to lay Catholics that it and it alone may speak the policies of the U. S. Church...
...haired and passionate upon it. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. liked his conducting well enough in 1936 to sponsor the Symphony in a 40-station hookup over NBC. The Mellon family began to take an interest. Andrew Mellon's Son Paul became treasurer. Last May the Board began to lay elaborate plans for a 20-week season with conductors like Walter Damrosch, Otto Klemperer, Eugene Goossens, Carlos Chavez, Georges Enesco. Paul and Andrew Mellon pledged $30,000 to a $300,000 subscription drive. Although $200,000 were still wanting and their plans had not crystallized, the Board refused to continue...
Last week Director Palmer lay ill at St. John's Hospital in Springfield. Plan was to have Governor Horner honor his victory by signing the bill at his bedside...
Originally this spring 1017 students applied for admission to the upperclass dormitories with 583 gaining admittance. Explanation of the discrepancy lay in the almost record number of applications as against an unusually small number of vacancies. The Class of 1938 is a bigger than average group as found in the Houses...