Word: loretto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First they advertised that a Roman Catholic priest named Loretto du Manoir would be chairman. Johannesburg's Bishop William Patrick Whelan (son of an Irish father, a Boer mother) summoned the priest and told him that "it would be impolitic for the church to be mixed up in this." Said Du Manoir later: "He was awfully polite about it, but firm." The next advertised chairman. Philosophy Professor Errol Harris of W'itwatersrand University, quit when the university principal warned him that Witwatersrand dared not anger the Malan government, whose subsidies it needs. Jack Unterhalter, a Johannesburg lawyer, finally...