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...church, attempted to parade. Menaced by brawny Prussian police, they rolled up their banners, put away their band instruments, scurried home. Priests had been sent to prison camps, despite the fact that Chancellor Hitler is nominally a Catholic. Not to be downed, the Catholic Bishop of Mainz ordered priests in his diocese not to permit Nazi flags to be flown from their churches, a practice now common throughout the Reich. But Rome's most potent blast was hurled by Michael Cardinal Faulhaber, doughty Archbishop of Munich. Speaking ex cathedra from St. Michael's, which was jammed to overflowing...
...bludgeons broke up the Catholic Journeymen's Congress, prevented Michael Cardinal von Faulhaber, Archbishop of Munich, from celebrating a pontifical high mass and injured severely a dozen Catholic journeymen delegates. Dead after the affray, apparently from a stroke brought on by the excitement, was Prelate Zinser of Mainz...
...certainly know where to begin: with B for the Busches of Budweiser, unquestionably the foremost house of the beerage, a house which one year produced 1,650,000 barrels,* an alltime record. Adolphus, the founder of the Busch line, was the hearty offshoot of a wealthy Busch family of Mainz on the Rhine. He arrived in the U. S. in 1857, aged 15, served in the Union Army, married Lily, the daughter of Eberhard Anheuser who had a brewery in St. Louis, went into partnership with his father-in-law and built up the greatest beer business...
Bishop Christian Schreiber of Berlin commented: "So far I see no reason why I should take such action. . . . It is very likely that the National Socialists in the diocese of Mainz have been particularly aggressive against the Catholic Church...