Word: roosevelt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cardinal Spellman's remarks had been aimed not only at Mrs. Roosevelt-a bystander, if not exactly an innocent one-but at a bill introduced in the House of Representatives by North Carolina's stubbornly conservative Graham Barden, whom Spellman had recently characterized as a "new apostle of bigotry...
This week Mrs. Roosevelt emerged from her silence. She would not "discuss this question any further on a personal basis with Cardinal Spellman," she wrote in "My Day." She pointed out that she had supported Alfred Smith, a Roman Catholic, in every campaign that he made. "I have no ill feeling toward any religion or toward any people of high or low estate because they belong to any religious group. I am sure the Cardinal has written in what to him seems a Christian and kindly manner and I wish to do the same...
...Roosevelt wrote that it looked as if the firmest resistance to Communism "was being waged by the priests and laymen of the Roman Catholic faith." She described Cardinal Mindszenty as "the center and the symbol of resistance during the Nazi occupation" and added: "There is no excuse for the action that has been taken by the [Hungarian] government." On Jan. 18 she reported the gist of a letter she had had from an editor (whom she did not name) who "claims that the Cardinal is a reactionary, if not a fascist and a notorious anti-Semite . . . Certainly," she added...
...labor's worst squalls. 'Auto workers, fighting for union recognition, staged the great sit-down strikes. For six weeks the gentle, violence-hating Murphy sat by and refused to throw them out by force, finally settled the dispute by mediation. Michigan declined to re-elect him. But Roosevelt appointed him U.S. Attorney General...
Pendergast and Philadelphia's Republican Publisher Moses Annenberg for income-tax evasion. He was looking around for other victims in a field rich with game, when Franklin Roosevelt elevated him to the place left vacant by the death of the only Catholic on the Supreme Court, crusty old Pierce Butler...