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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Papist Plot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 7, 1958 | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

...Roman Catholic priest, I roared when reading how the Catholic students of Athens' University of Georgia answered Student Lowell Kirby's ridiculous accusation of a Papist plot to establish fascism in America [June 16]. With all the crafty preparations being made by Rome to take over the country, I feel left out in the cold. In my nine years as a parish priest not once have I been called in by my bishop to be briefed on the coming coup d'état. I haven't even been told the date of the uprising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 7, 1958 | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

...Anabaptist-turned-Anglican Rector Gates, the 17th century's Harvey Matusow, infiltrated Catholic circles, spun a yarn about a Papist plot aimed at the assassination of Charles II, was exposed as a liar after a hue and cry both in and out of Parliament, was whipped from Aldgate to Newgate to Tyburn for his pains-and to everyone's dismay, lived to lie another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: On Congress' Investigations | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

...Obstinate Papist." Keen, however, soon discovered other leads. One was that Shakespeare's father got into trouble in Stratford, presumably for remaining a Roman Catholic. At that time, says Keen, he might well have wanted to send his son away from Stratford, and it was quite possible that he let him flee with his Catholic schoolmaster Simon Hunt, who apparently found his way to an English Catholic college in Rheims, France. In any case, Shakespeare was later to refer to that college in The Taming of the Shrew ("I . . . freely give unto you this young scholar that hath been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Case of a Vexatious Man | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

...statement quoted by Mullins read: "In Boston, the first wave of the new immigration was typified by the Irish peasant fleeing from the potato famine--dirty, ignorant, and miserable, and perhaps most important, a Papist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cherington Is Charged With Bias Against Irish by Herald Columnist | 2/18/1950 | See Source »

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