Word: sectarianism
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...Vermont poor boy, Thad Stevens was admitted to the bar in John Wilkes Booth's birthplace, Bel Air, Md., practiced law in York, Pa. He had the tough, narrow tenacity and discernment of the perfect sectional and sectarian infighter. As far as he saw, he saw clearly; as far as he thought, he thought honestly and without sentiment. His passionate sympathy for the Negro found fearless expression in his years of intimacy with his mulatto housekeeper, Lydia Smith, generally accepted as his common-law wife...
Master of ceremonies for the occas- ion will be John J. Mahoney '03, Director of Extension Courses, Member of the Faculty, and president of the organization which was incorporated June 6 as a "non-profit, non-partisan, non-sectarian institution devoted to educational work in the economic, political and social fields...
...been rated a menace by No. 1 Fascist Editor Virginio Gayda who last week could only construe the navy minister's remarks as an attack on the "uncontrolled power" of Benito Mussolini. Editor Gayda recently called M. Campinchia "renegade , Corsican" whose speeches are "the nefarious ravings of a sectarian madman with criminal leanings" and who writes "filthy prose, worthy only of a meeting of drunkards." This tirade was provoked by a Campinchi speech last year to sailors on the French steamer General Bonaparte. According to Fascist Gayda, Radical Socialist Campinchi roared: "From Corsica an offensive will be launched that...
Author: Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League (Samuel Untermyer, president). Place: Manhattan. Medium: 175-ft. net banners to be towed behind airplanes over holiday crowds at beaches, mountain resorts. Wording: YOU PAY FOR NAZI SPIES IF YOU BUY NAZI GOODS...
...while National Broadcasting Co. gives time to the Federal Council of Churches and the Catholic Hour run by the National Council of Catholic Men. Judged by fan mail, however, none of these programs is radio's most popular religious broadcast. That distinction belongs to a sectarian, time-buying program-the Lutheran Hour, which in the past three years has expanded from two to 62 stations on the Mutual Broadcasting System. With Rev. Dr. Walter Arthur Maier, professor at St. Louis' Concordia Theological Seminary, as its speaker, the Lutheran Hour draws as many as 8,000 letters, as much...