Word: roman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When Roman Catholics think that their faith has been flouted or their rights have been invaded, they get mad, form picket lines, write letters to editors, buttonhole legislators, in short, act like the political citizens they are. Protestants, whose aggregate weight is much greater, appear by comparison either meek or musclebound. But last week in Philadelphia a Protestant group took off its coat, rolled up its sleeves and displayed capable biceps. A meeting of 500 Protestant ministers and laymen gave enthusiastic endorsement to a League for Protestant Action. Among other things, the League announced its belief in the proposition that...
Throughout the world, on the same night this week, Y. M. C. A.s sponsored similar fire rituals. Broadcast to them all, from the World's Fair, went a speech on "Youth in Tomorrow's World," by Attorney General Frank Murphy, a devout Roman Catholic who is no more averse to helping the Y. M. C. A. than to endorsing the Oxford Group (see p. 54). All this smoke, fire and warm sentiment celebrated the Y. M. C. A.'s 95th anniversary...
...Proudest president was Father Arthur A. O'Leary of Georgetown University, on the Potomac's banks in Washington, D. C., as Georgetown celebrated its 150th anniversary. Founded by John Carroll, a friend of Benjamin Franklin and the first Roman Catholic bishop in the U. S., Georgetown is the oldest U. S. Catholic college. For the occasion President O'Leary staged elaborate ceremonies, gathered many a bigwig for kudos and speeches (among them: Speaker William B. Bankhead, U. S. Attorney-General Frank Murphy, head G-Man J. Edgar Hoover, American Bar Association President Frank J. Hogan). To President...
...Most embarrassed president was John H. Reynolds, of small, Methodist Hendrix College in Conway, Ark. To speak and be kudized at the college's commencement he invited Roman Catholic Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley, good friend to the president of the college's board of trustees, Utilityman Harvey Couch (Arkansas Power and Light, Kansas City Southern Railway). Mr. Farley came, spoke and was kudized, but not before a number of Arkansas Methodists, among them Teetotaler Dr. A. C. Millar, a former Hendrix president, had kicked up a storm because Teetotaler James Farley had helped repeal Prohibition...
...April 1939 grumbled: "a plethora of translations," "a flood of historical novels, more than 100 in 1938, many of them 1) bad, 2) unnecessary, 3) irrelevant, 4) mediocre, 5) 'more or less average." He found too "an extraordinary number of books" in which non-German personalities were stressed, Roman Generals, Russian composers, French painters. Other shortcomings : "No new peasant novels, soldier novels, glorification-of-the-Führer novels, sport novels, strength-through-joy novels, no conquest-of-unemployment novels, no good race, blood and soil novels, no go jd poetry." Long ago, Hitler told Germans to "think with...