Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Monsignor Augustus Hickey, of St. Paul's Church and Vicar General of the archdiocese, of ordering him in the name of the Archbishop to suspend publication of "From the Housetops." Maluf, according to Father Feeney, asked for a written order from the Archbishop to that effect along with the reason for its issuance. Monsignor Hickey reportedly left the Center never to return with the written order. The Chancery neither confirms or denies this story on the grounds that Archbishop Cushing has issued his last public statement on the matter last April...
...ostensible reason for the strike was wages (the printers had asked for a boost of $14.50 a week), but the real issue was Randolph's defiance of the Taft-Hartley Act ban on closed-shop clauses in contracts. Randolph dropped a formal contract, asked publishers to agree to "conditions of employment" continuing the prized closed shop that Chicago's printers first won 50 years ago. In many cities, publishers agreed; in Chicago, they refused...
Thus in a recent issue of BBC's The Listener, testy, old (64) Artist-Author Wyndham Lewis* rings a knell for his fellow English painters. One reason for the bell's toll, says Lewis, is high taxes which sop up the spare cash of collectors who were once well-to-do. Other reasons for the artist's sad state: his expenses have more than doubled in recent years; dealers demand 337% commission on everything they sell...
That was the main reason 16-year-old Jesse Stuart decided to be a schoolteacher. He asked for, and got, his sister's old job. In time, he became county school superintendent, later quit to concentrate on farming and writing short stories and poetry (Man with a Bull-Tongue Plow). This week, burly Jesse Stuart, now 42, published a new book (The Thread That Runs So True, Scribners; $3) to tell what life as a Kentucky mountain teacher was like...
Another summer enigma revolved around the Kremlin's new foe, Tito of Yugoslavia. Was Tito really Russia's foe or was this war of words well rehearsed? Should this country put a Communist dictatorship on the dole, and if so, for which reason: because Tito spat at Stalin or because Tito needed help...