Word: loughlin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reason Critic "Loughlin" had her Irish up was James Michael Curley, the city's mayor. Boston recently gave a brass-band welcome to Mayor Curley after he had been found guilty by a Federal Court (in Washington, D.C.) of using the mails to defraud. Catholic Curley, who is a congressman ($10,000 a year) as well as mayor of Boston ($20,000), began his political career in 1903 with a jail sentence (for taking a civil service examination for a friend), yet has served four times as mayor, one term as governor, despite being forced to pay back...
...wear their faith on their sleeves, reach for brickbats and shillelaghs at the slightest hint of criticism. But last week, after a telling blast against Boston Catholicism, they scarcely knew what head to crack: the blast had been loosed in the Commonweal, a Catholic weekly. It was signed "Katherine Loughlin," a pseudonym protecting a middleaged, devout, Irish Catholic spinster, her family and a relative who is a priest...
...Katherine Loughlin" insists that she is not ant-clerical, that she has merely repeated what popes and bishops have said on laymen's passivity. "When the Pope cries, 'Give me leaders!' he means lay as well as clerical. But lay leaders are not to be looked for in a regimented society where every Catholic association is ruled over by a priest. . . . Without these monitors, we might learn to use our own mental and moral muscles...
...quietest and best-organized in history. Its headquarters is a big, bemapped office in the Geological Survey in Washington. Its chief strategists are a Mutt & Jeff pair: lean, untidy Survey Director William Embry Wrather, who looks like a country schoolteacher, and chubby, loud-tied Chief Geologist Gerald Francis Loughlin. Since 1938 the Survey has sent forth hundreds of prospecting parties to promising fields from Alaska to Latin America. They have hunted for copper in Vermont, bauxite in Alabama, zinc in Wisconsin, oil in Alaska. In the past year alone the geologists have made more than 700 field investigations...
...Gerald F. Loughlin, chief geologist of the U.S. Geological Survey, gave the answer: "No." Reporting to his volcanic boss, Secretary of Interior Ickes, Dr. Loughlin estimated that the chances were three or four million to one against a blockbuster touching off a volcanic eruption. It might happen, said he, if a bomb hit a rock wedged in the vent of a volcano which was just barely holding the volcanic force back. But, he added, "the earth forces involved are so enormous as compared with any that man can bring to bear that the latter are wholly inconsequential...