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...Protestant pastors, the hillbillies south of the Kanawha River voted for a Catholic; Kennedy, in fact, brought his campaign to a climax with a statewide Sunday evening television assurance that if any President of the U.S. took "dictation" from anyone, the Pope included, it would be contrary to his oath of office and "he would be subject to impeachment and should be." Negroes gave him their emphatic endorsement. Women found him irresistible. And for all the rancor and bitterness it generated, the West Virginia primary cleared the political air. It swept the religious issue aside, at least until after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Vote Getter's Victory | 5/23/1960 | See Source »

...have much trouble getting congressional approval. One fact that impresses Congress: his reputation for aggressive honesty. Says Bicks: "There is a certain luxury in not being talkable-to about a case. I make it clear to anyone who does so that I will be perfectly willing to testify under oath as to the exact nature of our conversation in precise detail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Trustbuster in a Bowler | 5/23/1960 | See Source »

...Chelyan a Baptist minister distributed to his congregation copies of a phony Knights of Columbus oath,* an ancient political artifact. Kennedy made some converts. After hearing a Kennedy speech in Oceana, Mrs. Wanda Grey, a Baptist, had a change of heart: "I was surprised at myself. I thought I had my mind all made up. Then I heard him, and I decided being Catholic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: Tough as Boiled Owls | 5/9/1960 | See Source »

...bogus document that was designed years ago to arouse anti-Catholic feeling. The "oath," which has been repudiated by the Knights of Columbus, presumably bound each Knight to kill Protestants. The scurrilous "pledge" is markedly similar to the false, anti-Semitic "Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: Tough as Boiled Owls | 5/9/1960 | See Source »

...press card, Paar informed the audience. As for the disputed joke, "I only talked to you about a water closet; Walter Winchell would have peeked through the hole and told you who was there." Later he called Winchell lecherous and "a silly old man who could not admit under oath that he writes his own columns," added a few more phrases so barbarous that NBC cut them from the tape-with Paar's assent. (Winchell counterattacked toward week's end, wrote: "St. Paarnard is a mean, sick and malicious little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: The Return of St. Paarnard | 3/21/1960 | See Source »

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