Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your writeup concerning the American Legion's Annual Convention is more truthful than flattering, and I imagine will result in your getting a severe calling down from many Legionnaires. I have no criticism to make in regard to your report of the actions of some members whose conduct gave the whole body a black...
Next the Cardenas-dictated Congress sent a committee to San Luis Potosi to investigate "refraction against the Government and the Constitution." The committee returned with a report of Cedillo's sins, which included failure to establish socialist education, ownership of huge haciendas, failure to guarantee privileges to C. T. M. labor unions, permitting Catholic schools. The committee recommended that the Cedillo Government be ousted. Month ago Cardenas closed the Government aviation school in Potosi, ostensibly for economy, actually to remove a possible weapon from Cedillo. The old General countered with the purchase of six fast planes from...
...instead of every six years, be relieved of any diocesan jurisdiction and be made president of the Church's National Council, its business and missionary body. To call the presiding bishop an archbishop as was suggested in 1934, is neither recommended nor disapproved in the commission's report. Presiding Bishop Perry's term is up, and last week he was thought agreeable to being reelected. Other likely candidates: Bishop Cook, Bishop Hobson, Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill of Boston, Bishop George Ashton Oldham of Albany, Bishop George Craig Stewart of Chicago...
...Church's canon on marriage and divorce, which at present provides that only the innocent party in a divorce for adultery may be remarried in the church. The commission would allow bishops, a year after a divorce, to approve remarriage where it seems justifiable. However, a minority report was offered by Dr. Howard Chandler Robbins of Manhattan's General Theological Seminary. One of the Church's outstanding liberals, who left the deanship of Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine after a tiff with Bishop Manning. Dr. Robbins stands with conservatives in this case, believing...
...boisterous Irishmen who loved to pull down Jewish derbies and yank Jewish beards. Having neither beard nor derby, Ben Balish set himself up as a middleman in onions, soon did magnificently. But a truant officer caught him and young Balish had to bribe him $10 a week not to report his absence from school...