Word: mrs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vilification. Mrs. Roosevelt retired into shocked silence. Just as shocked but not as silent, New York's ex-Governor Herbert Lehman rushed to Mrs. Roosevelt's defense. "The issue is not whether one agrees or disagrees with Mrs. Roosevelt," he said. "The issue is whether Americans are entitled freely to express their views on public questions without being vilified or accused of religious bias...
...stood with Mrs. Roosevelt against "religious control of schools which are paid for by the taxpayers' money." But he was also certainly against parochial school children being excluded from milk rations, bus transportation, immunization programs, and the use of non-religious textbooks provided by federal funds...
Catholic youths, said the Cardinal, had fought for the U.S. "Their broken bodies on blood-soaked foreign fields were grim and tragic testimony to this fact." Would Mrs. Roosevelt deny equality to those Catholic boys? "Now my case is closed," concluded the Cardinal. And even though Mrs. Roosevelt might "attack" him again, "I shall not again publicly acknowledge you . . . Your record of anti-Catholicism stands for all to see . . . documents of discrimination unworthy of an American mother...
Cardinal Spellman's remarks had been aimed not only at Mrs. Roosevelt-a bystander, if not exactly an innocent one-but at a bill introduced in the House of Representatives by North Carolina's stubbornly conservative Graham Barden, whom Spellman had recently characterized as a "new apostle of bigotry...
This week Mrs. Roosevelt emerged from her silence. She would not "discuss this question any further on a personal basis with Cardinal Spellman," she wrote in "My Day." She pointed out that she had supported Alfred Smith, a Roman Catholic, in every campaign that he made. "I have no ill feeling toward any religion or toward any people of high or low estate because they belong to any religious group. I am sure the Cardinal has written in what to him seems a Christian and kindly manner and I wish to do the same...