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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...left of the President, got into A.F. of L.'s bad graces by espousing much liberal legislation approved by C.I.O. At home, he rashly antagonized Mayor Charles Kennon Quin's San Antonio machine and the potent Irish-Catholic vote. Last week Attorney Paul Joseph Kilday-an Irishman, Roman Catholic and Quin machinist-beat Maury Maverick by 546 votes in 49,312 votes cast. Said Maury Maverick: "Lincoln got beat four times. I guess I can take it once...
...Order of Servants of Mary (Servites) is a Roman Catholic mendicant order, founded in 1233 by seven noble Florentine youths in devotion to the Mother of God, with special reference to her sorrows. There are only 65 Servites in the U. S. In proportion to their numbers, those 65 fathers last week were by far the busiest of any religious order in the land...
...Spain proper. But before the week was out Premier Casares Quiroga's "nobody" had grown to a formidable list of somebodies, including Spain's best generals, 75% of the Spanish Army of 120,000 officers and men, many devout Catholic communicants, an overwhelming majority of the numerous Roman Catholic clergy, former noblemen and landowners, Fascists and Carlists...
...recently on their contributions to the Empire; 3) Sig. Mussolini's opposition to Freemasonry. Bolshevism, speculation in foreign exchange, in all three of which he suspects Jews of being active; 4) his fear that a Jewish national home in Palestine (see p. 18) would make the Mediterranean less Roman. He would like to solve the Zionist question by transferring the Zionists from Palestine to Ethiopia. Then the Arabs in Palestine would be let alone and international capital would be brought in to develop the Empire...
Signing Off's underworld heroes, case-hardened but paunchy, resemble the sporting characters of Damon Runyan. wry, picturesque, sentimental. Author McIntyre's technique is to interrupt fits & starts of tough talk with fits & starts of windy anxiety over (in this case) the Roman Catholic Church...