Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Republican Isolationist Thomas E. Dewey called Lindbergh's speech "an inexcusable abuse of the right of freedom of speech." New York's Alfred E. Smith said it "strikes at the very basis of our national unity." Hearst's isolationist New York Journal-American gave much of its...
Southern Protestants view with mixed emotions the Catholic effort to proselytize in this almost 100% Protestant area, but most liberals agree that one reason why anti-Catholic bigotry has been so much stronger in the South is that com aratively few Southerners know any good Catholics.
> The University of Southern California added a course in Lutheranism to a curriculum which already includes six denominational courses: Greek Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Episcopal, General Protestant, Jewish, Mormon.
Back to the Vatican last week flew the only envoy the U.S. has sent to the Holy See since 1867, tight-lipped Protestant Myron C. Taylor. No explanation was vouchsafed for his return. So speculation began buzzing.
>The Army announced a tabulation of religious preferences showing 59% of all U.S. soldiers are Protestants, 31% Catholics, 2% Jewish and 8% of no denomination. Comparable breakdown for the 55,807,366 church members listed in the latest (1936) official U.S. religious census: 55% Protestant, 37% Catholic, 8% Jewish.