Word: romane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy assignment would be 62-year-old Frank Matthews' first big public job. After developing a good law practice in Omaha, he had branched out into business, become head of two loan companies, vice president of a radio-TV station, a director of other corporations. A devout Roman Catholic (he had a chapel built in his home so that priests could say Mass there), he was once supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus. In 1944 Pope Pius XII made him a Papal Chamberlain with Cape and Sword, a post entitling him to serve a turn of duty...
...Rome last week, 400 Roman Catholic employers from Western Europe and Canada prepared to go home, carrying with them some memorable advice from Pope Pius XII. Delegates to the first international congress of UNIAPAC (International Union of Catholic Employers' Associations), they had heard the Pope deliver one of his clearest and most important statements to date on economic and social affairs...
...heartily concur with CRIMSON editor Leiper, also strenuously objecting that, in connection with "Terment," "the Roman Catholic group has again censored films for non-Catholics as well...
...which stood where the fire house is now. It was started largely through the enthusiasm of Kuno Francke, professor of German and the Museum's first curator, as a place for exhibits of specimens of Germanic art "from the first contact of Germanic tribes with the civilization of the Roman empire to the present day." Carl Schurz spoke at the opening in 1903, and Kaiser Wilhelm donated a considerable part of the original collection...
...shown in every city in Europe and was given the Grand Prize at Cannes in 1946. It was shown a few months later in New York to critical approval. However, it failed to meet with the approval of the Legion of Decency, an organization which "rates" every film for Roman Catholic consumption. The American distributors were unwilling to offer the film for the national market until it had been cleared by the Legion, being fearful of poor business. By making three cuts; the film has now been cleared. Through its unofficial pressure, the Roman Catholic group has again censored films...