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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Catholic hierarchy regards Omaha as a towering isle in a sea of Protestantism. Of Nebraska's 1,378,900 population, 160,000 are Roman Catholics?Germans, Irish, Bohemians, Mexicans?living among their Fundamentalist co-citizens. Head of that Catholic archipelago is Bishop Joseph Francis Rummel, host of the Eucharistic Congress...
...most significant duties which Master General Gillet has to perform in the U. S. are ineffable. He is a member of the Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office. The purposes of that office are fundamental to Roman Catholicism. It defends the teaching of faith and morals. It censors and condemns "dangerous" books, and permits the special reading of such books. It dispenses priests from fasting before mass. It judges, as supreme court, all cases of mixed marriages. It judges heresy and all offenses leading to a suspicion of heresy. All members take an oath of secrecy, "the secret...
...from Kozeluh's drives, and late in the match few lobs were pitched well enough to give him anything but a smash. Richards won the last two sets, 6-3, 6-4, and the title that went with them. Later, paired with Howard Kinsey, Richards defeated Kozeluh and Roman Najuch of Germany for the doubles title...
Married. Francis C. Eustis Hitchcock, youngest member of the famed Long Island polo family; and Miss Mary Atwell, Long Island socialite; at St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Manhasset, L. I. Best man: Brother Thomas Hitchcock, Jr., international polo captain...
...Zionist, Theodor Herzl; at Bordeaux; by shooting himself, immediately after the funeral of his sister Paulina, in whose coffin, "where there is plenty of space for both," he wished to be buried. In effort to escape being merely his father's son he became in turn a Baptist, a Roman Catholic, again a Jew. Before suicide he wrote: "My situation is that of a dead man. When God wants to destroy a person he first converts him into...