Word: roman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Came a curious revelation. Some one looked up the baptismal record of Charles Curtis. It was at the Immaculate Conception (Roman Catholic) Church in St. Mary's, Kan. Dated April 15, 1860, it was signed by L. Dumortier, Jesuit priest, missionary to the Potawatomies. In St. Mary's it was recalled that Ellen Pappan Curtis, the nominee's mother, attended St. Mary's Convent. Interviewed about the discovery, Nominee Curtis said: "I learned for the first time only a few years ago that I had been baptized a Roman Catholic. . . . My mother died, you know, when I was very young...
...relieve the farmer-of his farm." Listeners, observing that the Gore technique closely resembled that of Funnyman Will Rogers, who is also an Oklahoman, wondered what it is that makes Oklahomans funny. Heflin. James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin, senior Senator from Alabama, who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope and who loudly and repeatedly predicted that Smith would not be nominated, was speechmaking to Ku Klux Klan audiences in the East during convention week. He sent a $22 telegram urging the Alabama delegation to cast no votes for Smith at any time. All but one Alabama delegate obeyed...
...dominant Mexican regime is that of President Plutarco Elias Calles and General Alvaro Obregon. They are friends, agrarians, Nationalists, anti-Roman Catholics. They have caused the. Constitution to be amended so that a former President (General Obregon, 1920-24) can be re-elected (TIME, Nov. 1, 1926). They have caused to be shot as revolutionaries the only other presidential candidates, General Arnulfo Gomez (he of the Kaiser-like mustachios) and General Francisco Serrano (TIME, Nov. 21 et ante}. Therefore, General Alvaro Obregon, stern, one-armed warrior, rich rancher, ruthless patriot, was unanimously elected President of Mexico last week?there being...
Superintendent Bogan, a Roman Catholic, has held jobs in Chicago public schools for 20 years. His present appointment is for four years; salary, $15,000 a year. The board of education has promised him free- dom from political interference...
...scholars' profusion of detail, Ludwig recreates the world Jesus lived in: the peaceful hillside where he loved to lie and dream his poet dreams, the bustling village on market day, the simple carpenter and fisherfolk, and finally, in glamorous contrast, Jerusalem, loud with the pompous clankings of Roman centurions, the sophistries of Pharisee and Sadducee, the sharp bickerings of tradesmen in the temple court. Instinctively avoiding the fierce challenge of the city, Jesus kept to the hills, pondering the wickedness of priests, and the gullibility of the people. But suddenly he heard "the voice of one crying...