Word: priestly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early one misty Manhattan morning last week Rev. Charles Edward Coughlin boarded a Government cutter, went down New York Harbor to Quarantine. There the radiorating Detroit priest climbed into the Italian liner Rex, hurried to an upper deck where waited his bishop, grey, gnarled Michael James Gallagher...
Last July Father Coughlin in the course of a political speech in Cleveland called President Roosevelt a "betrayer and liar." Bishop Gallagher ordered his priest to retract, later sailed for Vatican City to make Episcopal reports to executives of the Holy See and obeisance to.the Pope. In Vatican City, Bishop Gallagher heard off-stage voices variously blaming and praising Father Coughlin's political activities. Since no prelate had chosen to speak out clearly on his own authority, the Detroit bishop decided that, on the whole, the Vatican approved Father Coughlin, and so declared to the Press (TIME...
...implication, as currency smugglers and sexual perverts. In a recent issue of Julius Streicher's Der Stürmer appeared the ultimate in double-barreled cartoons: on the left under the caption Sworn to Satan a leering Jew seducing a German maiden; on the right a priest and nun tagged Belonging to the Church; these two captions trailing into the screamer AND BOTH LOST TO THE COMMUNITY OF THE PEOPLE: UNFRUITFUL...
...CHILD OF 12 MIGHT BE AWARDED FIRST PRIZE!" and "YOU DESERVE SOME EASY MONEY," some 45,200 St. Louisans stuck through the contest at $1.20 each, racked their brains for a dozen weeks over the Globe-Democrat's "Famous Names." First trouble came when a Roman Catholic priest denounced the saucy drawings of Artist Arno. Soon the rival Star-Times, which once had an option on the contest itself, and Post-Dispatch began to hint that the contest was unfair. Finally two St. Louisans tied for first prize, won $6,000 each. Then Missouri's Attorney General cracked...
Died. Philip Joseph ("Mac") Magrath, 59, Manhattan's famed fistfighting priest who for 24 years (1907-31) crusaded against waterfront gangs (Hudson Dusters, Tin Can Athletic Club, Pig Alley Sports, Vinegar Hill Gang) with prayer-book and an 8-in. rubber hose vhich, he said, "drops 'em just as quick but doesn't crack the skull"; of heart disease; in Manhattan. In his Catholic Seamen's Mission hung a bold sign: "If you want to know who's boss START SOMETHING...