Word: priestly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fordham University, Father Svensson's arrival last week was eventful. The erect, twinkling-eyed Icelander turned out to be wearing the fedora hat of the late great priest-chancellor of Austria, Monsignor Ignaz Seipel, with whom Father Svensson lived in Vienna and at whose death the Jesuit was present. Fordham's Jesuits made a quick deal with their colleague, bought him a new hat and acquired Monsignor Seipel's for the University museum...
Died. Very Reverend Monsignor John J. Curran, 77, famed mediator of Pennsylvania anthracite strikes, eloquent prohibitionist; after long illness; in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Mine mule-driver in his boyhood, Priest Curran enlisted the aid of his friend President Theodore Roosevelt to bring about a victorious conclusion to John Mitchell's historic United Mine Workers strike of 1902. Admirer and aid of John L. Lewis and his fight to unionize the coal industry, Monsignor Curran was stricken after his rectory was fired last Good Friday...
...Townsend had boasted of some 10,000,000 Townsend Plan voters primed to do his bidding. Priest Coughlin had sworn that he would deliver 9,000,000 votes to the Union Party or get off the air. Preacher Smith numbered his Share-Our-Wealth faithful at 6,000,000. Last week their joint candidate, William Lemke, polled 650,000 votes...
Three days later Father Coughlin, admitting his Union to be "thoroughly discredited," announced by radio that he was keeping his promise, quitting the air. Many a citizen found himself in hearty agreement with the political priest for the first time as he throbbed: "It is better, both for you and for me, for the country I serve and the church that I love, for me to be forgotten for the moment...
...archdiocese with Los Angeles as its centre last month, and elevated Bishop John Joseph Cantwell to be archbishop, San Diego became a separate diocese (TIME, Oct. 5). Last week the Holy Father made known his choice for bishop of that see: a tall, husky, affable priest named Very Rev. Charles Francis Buddy, 49, rector of St. Joseph's Cathedral in St. Joseph...