Word: roman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...June 7 issue of TIME under Religion, you state that Al Smith was "the only Roman Catholic ever nominated for President by a major party...
Charles O'Conor was nominated in 1872 by the "Bourbon" Democrats who could not stomach Horace Greeley and his well-remembered anti-slavery editorials. I am not sure O'Conor was a Roman Catholic but his name sounds as if he were...
...This first week's work was plainly unsatisfying to the Congressional inquisitors. "Is that all?'' asked Senator La Follette. "Aren't you going to discuss the incorporated yacht?'' asked Congressman Frank Crowther of Schenectady. "Let's have some information, not a Roman holiday...
...Best & Co. was so good that she became its vice president at 32. Not a college graduate, Miss Lewis got her L.H.M. from Russell Sage. A modest newcomer was President Roosevelt's long-time Personal Secretary Marguerite ("Missy") Le Hand, who was invested with an LL.D. by Roman Catholic Rosary College (River Forest, Ill.) at a special White House presentation while the President looked on. A similar courtesy was extended to ailing Utilitarian Henry Latham Doherty of Cities Service Co., who got an LL.D. from Temple University in his sickroom at Temple Hospital in Philadelphia. Most spectacular conjunction...
...support Novelist A. P. Herbert's liberalized divorce law. Just before the Coronation at which, as one of the King's supporters, he gazed for hours straight into the face of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of Durham announced that he felt it disgraceful that Roman Catholics and Non-Conformists were allowed to play no part in such an Empire celebration...