Word: sheen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Browning, was battling to avenge his 1952 defeat at the hands of Governor Frank Clement. Browning supporters charged Clement with accepting a Cadillac as a gift from trucking interests and with forging letters used to disprove other Browning attacks. But much of the political sheen had worn off Old Warhorse Browning, 64, whom Clement's forces berated for having "sold out the South" at the 1952 Democratic convention by voting to unseat the Virginia delegation. Clement, still the nation's youngest (34) governor, seemed to impress the voters with his oratorical spellbinding and the record of his first...
...Fulton J. Sheen 5. Edward...
...great state of strain for fear he himself will be attacked. Of course he knows that he has so much of a record of leftist activities ... It appears that he is trying to buy personal immunity from attack by turning informer . . . Some think that Fulton J. Sheen may soon announce another distinguished convert...
...Schweitzer, TIME, July n, 1949) with prelates such as Pittsburgh's Episcopal Bishop Austin Pardue, who trains prospective ministers for his diocese by having them work in steel mills and coal mines (TIME, Dec. 31, 1951), or they may be stories on such figures as Bishop Fulton J. Sheen and Rabbi Louis Finkelstein (TIME, April 14, 1952; Oct. 15, 1951). The third aim of the section is to report the news in the field - the meetings, mergers, appointments and pronouncements of the world's churches...
...product. The subject was the same one that engaged many another citizen: Senator Joe McCarthy. A few of radio & TV's pundits-notably Fulton Lewis Jr. and Walter Winchell-were loud in Mc Carthy's defense. Some held a middle view, as did Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, who, by implication, praised Joe's works while decrying his ways. The bishop's parable: "It may very well be in any home that a man may set a rat trap with Gorgonzola cheese . . . Many in the home are dissatisfied with the Gorgonzola because it smells up the place...