Word: mayoress
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...With mayoress of Brighton after conference session...
...Walter Lippmann, Labor Chief George Meany, Oilman Edwin Pauley, and New York's Mayor Robert Wagner (who played the fiddle as a boy). And, since the party was in honor of Governor Luis Muňoz Marin and his wife, there was a sprinkling of Puerto Ricans, including Mayoress Doňa Felisa Rincón de Gautier of San Juan...
...only confess but must also promise, as a condition of absolution, not to support Muñoz' party in the future unless it changed its "anti-Catholic, antiChristian" philosophy, e.g., its opposition to religious instruction in public schools. When Doña Felisa Rincon de Gautier, the mayoress of San Juan, announced that she would defy his edict Father Maisonet told her she must do public penance before she could receive Communion. Realizing that the situation had got clearly out of hand, Archbishop Davis cabled moderation from Chicago. Said Davis: "No sanctions or penalties were ordered...
Legal Right. Reaction to Maisonet's statement and to similar edicts laid down by priests throughout Puerto Rico was violent. Doña Felisa Rincón de Gautier, the P.D.P. mayoress of San Juan, said: "At that moment, I felt that Father Maisonet was more a sinner than myself, for he was denying Communion to many good people who did not in their hearts believe that they had committed a sin." Doña Felisa defiantly announced that she intended to receive Communion without confessing or repenting her vote...