Word: roosevelt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...personal feeling is that the criticism leaves little opportunity to Mrs. Roosevelt of admitting gracefully that she might be even partially wrong...
What an appalling blunder in public relations ... If Mrs. Roosevelt's attitude constitutes anti-Catholicism, then I've got news for the cardinal: this country is just full of "anti-Catholics" who feel just as she does on this subject. And his methods have done anything but lessen their number...
...agree that the Spellman-Roosevelt controversy is extremely distasteful but only because a man of his stature would attempt, or rather condescend, to enlighten such an obvious publicity seeker...
...debate, Mrs. Roosevelt was clearly ahead on points. The subject that provoked the controversy, the cardinal's loss of temper, and her own adroit mode of expression were all in her favor until she gave way to some quiet gloating in her column about the favorable response in her mailbag. Surely, she must have realized that a considerable proportion of this response came from people afflicted with the fault which had been attributed to her and which she was in the process of disowning...
...doubt if Mrs. Roosevelt's silence was "shocked," on receiving Cardinal Spellman's letter. She was probably surprised on receiving such a thorough and adequate reply to her unnecessary attacks on our Catholic Church...