Word: revs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vatican's most trusted servants in the U.S. raised the first forth right, authoritative Catholic voice last week against any idea that Hitler's war against Russia was a holy crusade. Two months ago this same bishop-the Most Rev. Joseph Patrick Hurley, who was dispatched from a Vatican post to St. Augustine, Fla. last autumn - was the first to proclaim Naziism a worse enemy than Communism...
...appointment of leading industrialists to Government control boards. A cause cèlèbre is the case of Viscount Wolmer, Government Director of Cement, who also draws a $20,000 salary from the cement makers' federation. Lord Wolmer's leading critic has been the Rt. Rev. Ernest Barnes, famed Bishop of Birmingham, who some months ago lost a ?1,600 libel suit over remarks he made about the "cement ring." Last week the unrepentant Bishop stood up in the House of Lords to ask, "Ought a Government officer, sitting in a Government building and giving instructions...
...expected to last the two rounds. Seniors play only two rounds instead of four, compete in classes, from E (55 to 60), to A (75 and up). Last week Oldster Vickers had 21 golfers to beat. Largest gallery followed frisky Mr. Vickers and his partner, 86-year-old Rev. William W. Leete...
...Venerables Vickers & Leete stole the show. Playing in a blustering wind the first day, Mr. Vickers turned in 119, the Rev. Mr. Leete 113. The second day, Mr. Vickers got 111, the Rev. Mr. Leete...
Died. The Rt. Rev. Monsignor Joseph Nicholas Grieff, 86, founder of the American Passion Play; in Union City, N.J. Produced annually under his direction, the play ran afoul of the Sunday blue laws in 1923 when a police court recorder fined him a dollar for violating the vice and morality act by giving a theatrical performance on a Sunday. The recorder later reversed himself...