Word: roman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sister Mary Basil, 0. P., cancelled her subscription when TIME reprinted some doggerel which was typical of campaign slurs on Alfred E. Smith and the Roman Catholic Church...
Religion-"A Roman Catholic cannot be President of the United States." Proof of this statement is impossible, but many was the Republican who said: "If Smith had been a Protestant, he would have won." Democrats insisted to the end that the religious issue did not originate in their own party during the McAdoo-Smith fight for nomination in 1924, or, if it did originate then, that it was fanned to flame again by auxiliary agencies...
...pledge card said: "Recognizing the tremendous importance of your final appeal for assistance in defeating the Roman Catholic Clerical Party* and to burst up the solid south, as a solemn rebuke to Rome's meddling in our political affairs, and to show the world that America stands firmly against RUM AND ROMANISM, I RUSH TO YOU the sum of $...., with my earnest prayer...
...MURDER PROTESTANTS AND DESTROY AMERICAN GOVERNMENT IS THE OATH BINDING ROMAN CATHOLICS There was also a poem, entitled "Alcohol Smith's Platform," of which this verse was typical...
...Calvert Associates were chartered in 1922 under the New York State laws as an educational society. Their leader is Michael Williams, convert to Roman Catholicism, editor of The Commonweal. Profits made by the Calvert Associates from the sale of their books, etc., are applied to the promotion of religious liberty, more specifically to the dissemination of honest information regarding the Church of Rome. Among its directors are many famed non-Catholics, such as Maj. Gen. Robert Lee Bullard (retired), Architect Ralph Adams Cram, Nicholas Murray Butler, Dr. Henry Van Dyke, Louis Wiley, Gen. Lincoln Clark Andrews. Also there...