Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pastoral letter issued over the signature of Philadelphia's Dennis Cardinal Dougherty, the U. S. bishops declared: "His Holiness calls us to the defense of our democratic government, framed in a Constitution that safeguards the inalienable rights of man. . . . This charge solemnly approves the American hierarchy's traditional position of unswerving allegiance to our free American institutions." The pastoral announced that Catholic University will at once compile Catholic textbooks to teach democracy at "all educational levels"-to 3,000,000 pupils in 10,000 Catholic schools, high schools and colleges...
Growing Pains. "I was a worker's son," says Odets, "until the age of 12." His father had sold papers, peddled salt; his mother had worked in a factory. During Clifford's childhood the family shuttled back & forth between Philadelphia-where he was born in 1906-and The Bronx, where they settled down. The father slowly rose in the world, ceased to be a worker, today is very well...
Those were romantic years. In Philadelphia a girl said: "Every girl should have one Clifford Odets in her life." In Springfield, Mass., there was a "horrible, exquisite" love affair "with something of the Sorrows of Werther about it." In Manhattan there was an unheated railroad flat near Tenth Avenue which Odets shared with eight other people. (The last time this flat was mentioned in print, the landlord wrote to Odets: "You still owe us money.'') Coal for the stove being expensive, the roomers sat around wrapped in blankets. Odets mastered the art of making potato pancakes...
Back to the U. S. after 20 years spent in Europe went Catherine Wolff of Philadelphia, now Baroness Eugene Rothschild, whose brother-in-law, Baron Louis Rothschild, has been in "protective custody" in Vienna since last May, and she refused to talk about Nazibusiness...
Several instances of unusual generosity came to the attention of the Committee. In Lowell House a tutor who felt particularly bad about the lot of the German refugees contributed $100. In another house, a student revealed that his mother had read about the drive in a Philadelphia newspaper and had sent a check...