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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shaking hands with postmasters from Washington to San Diego, to Honolulu, to Washington. ¶To the White House went a delegation of representatives bearing a petition signed by 242 members, pointing out that the great majority of the signers were Jews and Protestants. Responsive to the protests of the Roman Catholic Church against its treatment by the Mexican Government, the petition urged the Administration to inquire into the "facilities for divine worship" available to U. S. citizens in Mexico. With the petition was presented a memorial stating that the signers were unalterably opposed to any semblance of interference in Mexico...
...produced an affidavit from an Anglican clergyman named Anson whom he described as "dean of the white ministers in the Islands." The Rev. E. G. Anson bore witness that Governor Pearson was "an awful liar, thief and hypocrite." Witness Yates also offered a letter he had received from a Roman Catholic priest named Leo St. Laurence. Wrote Father St. Laurence: ''It looks as if it is now a war, 'Pearsonites versus the Catholic Church'. . . . The Fathers have been put out of the St. Thomas Tennis Club, 'suspended from all the rights and privileges...
Long before the Roman Catholic Church deployed its forces for a well-publicized attack on the cinema industry and launched its Legion of Decency, U. S. Protestantism had produced many an able independent warrior. One such was Dr. Guy Emery Shipler, editor of The Churchman, liberal Episcopal fortnightly, oldest (131 years) religious journal in English. Munching popcorn and pounding out Churchman editorials on his typewriter, Dr. Shipler called Tsar Will Hays a "window-dresser" and "office boy'' in 1929, later smoked out the fact that on the Hays payroll were two employes of the Federal Council of Churches...
Methodists. Congregationalists, Episcopalians have taken their turns at being head chaplain of the U. S. Navy, but not until this week did a Roman Catholic get the job. Appointed to succeed Captain Sydney K. Evans, Episcopalian, was Captain Edward Aloysius Duff, 50, of Philadelphia. Jovial, round-faced Father Duff, 20 years a chaplain on battleships and in Xavy yards, will sit at a desk in Washington, direct the spiritual welfare of 85,000 officers & men. Says he: "By actual count and statistics, a larger proportion of Navy men and officers attend church on ship and on shore than...
...James Graham Fair, Irish immigrant boy who went West with the '49ers, bought into the Comstock Lode and became a U. S.. Senator. "Birdie" Fair followed the footsteps of her elder Sister "Tessie" (Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs) by making a brilliant marriage to a top-flight socialite. A devout Roman Catholic, she got a Paris divorce in 1927, assumed the name Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt...