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Schmidt, the Chamber of Commerce's di rector of economic research. Said Schmidt: "In spite of some soft spots...
Bishop Eduardo Boza Masvidal, rector of the Catholic University of Villanueva, has been speaking out against the Red threat for a year. But a Havana priest named Moisés Arrechea recently went on television to say that the "humanism" which Castro espouses is "the work of God himself." Last week, when Castro labor goons followed up the seizure of the pro-Catholic daily Diario de la Marina by grabbing the independent Prensa Libre, Cuba's largest newspaper, Father Guillermo Sardinas rushed to the paper's office to give his congratulations. Said Sardinas, who is chief chaplain...
...Logic of Wonderland. In Choisy-le-Roi, near Paris, police had ignored refugee Soviet Engineer Taras Hryciuk, instead hauled off his daughter Tamara, whose crime seemingly consisted of being president of the Ukrainian Students' Association in Paris. Father Dragoun, rector of the Croatian Catholic Mission in Paris, was sure that his offense had been officiating at a memorial mass for the late Cardinal Stepinac...
...case went into court last January when a Columbus federal grand jury indicted the four: Mains, sales vice president of the Union Fork & Hoe Co. of Columbus; William G. Rector and Robert R. Raymond, president and vice president of the True Temper Corp. of Cleveland; and F. Bliss Winn. president of the O. Ames Co. division of McDonough Co. of Parkersburg, W. Va. The indictment charged that at meetings held over the past five years they discussed setting identical prices for hundreds of implements, chiefly for gardening, such as rakes, shovels, picks, trowels, sidewalk scrapers and sod lifters. With other...
...National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception is a vast Romanesque-Byzantine tribute to the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception, patroness of U.S. Roman Catholics. The idea of building it was first broached in 1912 by Bishop Thomas J. Shahan, fourth rector of the Catholic University, who lies buried in the new shrine's south crypt. He received a blessing for the project (and $400) from Pope Pius X, and in 1920 the cornerstone was laid at the site in northeast Washington, at Fourth Street and Michigan Avenue...