Word: roman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Smith Committee adroitly dodged challenging labor's rights or employers' wrongs. With its tongue in its cheek and its eye on the record, it examined the labor relations of the experts on labor relations, asked the old Roman Juvenal's question: "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes" or Who will guard the "SG-&-SO" guardians...
...Army and Big Business have tried to get the Führer to move Christmas this year to Sunday, Dec. 24, so that munitions production would hum as usual on Monday, the 25th. Adolf Hitler is an extremely backslidden Roman Catholic, but no fool. He declined to take this advice. Aides said he might celebrate Christmas on the 25th at the Westwall with the troops. Last week rustic Nazi pagan neighbors of the Fuhrer at Berchtesgaden announced that on Christmas Eve they will gather on the mountain crags above his snuggery "to shoot guns and pistols to frighten away...
Least known of the 100-odd Roman Catholic dioceses and archdioceses of the U. S. is an intangible one called the Army & Navy Diocese. Its uncounted souls are all the Catholics in the armed forces; Catholic civil employes of the military; their families. Its priesthood: 517 Catholic chaplains, active and reserve. This diocese has no bishop all to itself; its last one was the late Patrick Cardinal Hayes, Archbishop of New York...
...first and only piece appeared in the Post, Heywood Broun lay unconscious under an oxygen tent. A priest had administered the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church. This week Heywood Broun was dead. An oldtime newspaperman, attached to an evening paper, he would have been glad to know that he died in time for the afternoon editions...
...last week broadcast for the 5,000,000 Poles in the U. S. a faithful, tragic, Polish Christmas, kolendy and all. Parent and producer of this ceremony (from WJR, Detroit) was young Father Edward Majeske, director of the Detroit Roman Catholic Archdiocesan Organists Guild, and famed interpreter of Polish liturgical music. His cast: 24 youths of the Schola Cantorum of the Polish seminary of S. S. Cyril & Methodius. Their best-known kolenda, Wsrod Nocnej Ciszy, in Father Majeske's translation...