Word: romane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strikes me that somewhere I have read that one of the provisions of the Constitution of the Argentine Government in South America, is that the President of that Republic must be of the Roman Catholic Faith...
...President and Vice President of Argentina must be Roman Catholics and must have been born in Argentina. Similarly the King of England must be a Protestant. But there is no law to prevent the President of the U. S. from being a Mohammedan...
Sidney Johnston Catts, Democrat, used to be Governor of Florida (1916-20). Many a speech had he made in and near Florida's capital, Tallahassee. Last week he mounted a Tallahassee bandstand and began an anti-Smith speech. He touched upon Roman Catholicism. Whizzz-smack went an egg. Mr. Catts continued. Whizzz-smack went many eggs. Mr. Catts stopped talking. Irate, he left the bandstand, offered to fight any man in the crowd in single combat, offered a reward for the apprehension of his eggers...
...What the Roman Catholic Church is believed to be to Nominee Smith, the Anti-Saloon League of America is known to be to Nominee Hoover-his largest organized backing outside of his political party. That the League would work for Hooverism was obvious. That it would endorse him outright was uncertain. Never before had it openly chosen between Presidential candidates...
Correspondents reported last week only one Roman shopkeeper who continues to pay a three word tax on the name of his hairdressing shop: "The Ladies' Toilette...